Unilateral lesion of the nigrostriatal pathway induces an increase of neuronal activity of the pedunculopontine nucleus, which is reversed by the lesion of the subthalamic nucleus in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1833-1842

  Breit, Sorin ^a,b   Bouali Benazzouz, Rabia ^b,c   Benabid, Alim Louis ^c,d   Benazzouz, Abdelhamid ^a,d  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Basal ganglia; Electrophysiology; Parkinson's disease; Pedunculopontine nucleus; Subthalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0035784037     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01800.x     Document Type: Article

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