A force-plate actometer for quantitating rodent behaviors: illustrative data on locomotion, rotation, spatial patterning, stereotypies, and tremor

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 107-124

  Fowler, S C ^a   Birkestrand, B R ^a   Chen, R ^a   Moss, S J ^a   Vorontsova, E ^a   Wang, G ^a   Zarcone, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine induced stereotypies; Harmaline; Locomotor activity; Mice; Parkinson's disease model; Rats; Rotational behavior; Sensitization; Tremor

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; HARMALINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

ACTOMETER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE TRANSDUCER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; ROTATION; SENSITIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY; TECHNIQUE; TREMOR; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 0035972784     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00359-4     Document Type: Article

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