Long-Evans rats have a larger cortical topographic representation of movement than Fischer-344 rats: A microstimulation study of motor cortex in naïve and skilled reaching-trained rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 197-203

  VandenBerg, Penny M ^a   Hogg, Theresa M ^a   Kleim, Jeffrey A ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticospinal stimulation and movement; Fischer 344 motor cortex; Long Evans rat motor cortex; Microstimulation of motor cortex; Motor cortex; Rat motor cortex; Skilled reaching; Stain differences in skilled reaching; Strain differences in motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037202559     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(02)00865-1     Document Type: Article

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