Behavioral changes associated with grafts of embryonic ventral mesencephalon tissue into the striatum and/or substantia nigra in a rat model of Parkinson's Disease

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 179-187

  Johnston, Rowena E ^a   Becker, Jill B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Reproductive Sciences Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Neural transplantation; Parkinson; Rotation; Spontaneous behavior; Striatum; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FORELIMB; KINESIS; MESENCEPHALON; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0032874242     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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