Behavioral recovery after transplantation into a rat model of Huntington's disease: Dependence on anatomical connectivity and extensive postoperative training

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 431-436

  Brasted, Peter J ^a,d   Watts, Colin ^b   Torres, Eduardo M ^c   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,b   Dunnett, Stephen B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; CONDITIONING; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0033940773     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.2.431     Document Type: Article

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