Plasticity of synapses in the rat neostriatum after unilateral lesion of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4732-4743

  Ingham, C A ^a,b   Hood, S H ^a   Taggart, P ^a   Arbuthnott, G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Caudate; Corticostriatal pathway; Neos triatum; Nigrostriatal pathway; Parkinson's disease; Perforated synapses; Plasticity; Putamen; Spines

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032526957     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-12-04732.1998     Document Type: Article

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