Recovery from early cortical damage in rats, VIII. Earlier may be worse: Behavioural dysfunction and abnormal cerebral morphogenesis following perinatal frontal cortical lesions in the rat

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 756-764

  Kolb, Bryan ^a   Cioe, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Neonatal; Plasticity; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN INJURY; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; DENDRITES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SWIMMING;

EID: 0033967513     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(99)00260-9     Document Type: Article

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