Cerebral morphology and functional sparing after prenatal frontal cortex lesions in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 143-155

  Kolb, Bryan ^a   Cioe, Jan ^a,b   Muirhead, Debbie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Hydrocephalus; Prenatal injury; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HINDLIMB; HYDROCEPHALUS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HINDLIMB; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; TOUCH;

EID: 0032033180     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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