Effect of unilateral ibotenate lesions of the ventral tegmental area on cortical and hippocampal EEG in freely behaving rats

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 369-375

  Jurkowlaniec, Edyta ^a   Tokarski, Juliusz ^a   Trojniar, Weronika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eating; EEG; Exploration; Lesion; Power spectrum; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOTOXICITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EATING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SNIFFING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; RATS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0345095297     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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