Ground reaction forces in locomoting hemi-parkinsonian rats: A definitive test for impairments and compensations

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-314

  Muir, Ground D ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centre of mass; Gait; Ground reaction forces; Kinetic; Locomotion; Rat; Striatal dopamine depletion; Unilateral

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; FORCE; GRAVITY; HINDLIMB; KINETICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VIDEOTAPE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GAIT; GRAVITATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXIDOPAMINE; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REFERENCE VALUES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0033008738     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050739     Document Type: Article

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