Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the development of conditioned bradycardia in rabbits with lesions of the cerebellar vermis

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-190

  Ghelarducci, Brunello ^a   Sebastiani, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebellar vermal lesion; Heart rate conditioning; Medial prefrontal cortex lesion; Neonates; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; WHITE MATTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRADYCARDIA; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART RATE; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBITS;

EID: 0032695091     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050888     Document Type: Article

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