Kinematic analyses of air-stepping in normal and decerebrate preweanling rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Stehouwer, Donald J ^a   Van Hartesveldt, Carol ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Decerebration; Gait; Kinematics; L DOPA; Locomotion; Neonatal rats; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; DRUG EFFECT; GAIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; RAT; WALKING SPEED;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN STEM; DECEREBRATE STATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; LEVODOPA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033960038     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(200001)36:1<1::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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