Testing forelimb placing "across the midline" reveals distinct, lesion-dependent patterns of recovery in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 310-317

  Woodlee, Martin T ^a   Asseo García, Aloysha M ^a   Zhao, Xiurong ^b   Liu, Shi Jie ^b   Jones, Theresa A ^a   Schallert, Timothy ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forelimb placing; Parkinson's disease; Recovery of function; Sensorimotor integration; Striatum; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; NEUROTOXIN; OXIDOPAMINE;

AKINESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FORELIMB; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXIDOPAMINE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 11844254522     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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