Unilateral sensorimotor cortex lesions in adult rats facilitate motor skill learning with the "unaffected" forelimb and training-induced dendritic structural plasticity in the motor cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 8597-8606

  Bury, Scott D ^a   Jones, Theresa A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral compensation; Dendritic growth; Denervation; Learned nonuse; Microtubule associated protein 2; Reach training; Rehabilitative training

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL GROWTH; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC CELL; FORELIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036812585     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-19-08597.2002     Document Type: Article

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