Rats recovering from unilateral barrel-cortex ischemia are capable of completing a whisker-dependent task using only their affected whiskers

Brain Research

Volumn 965, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 91-99

  Hoffman, John R ^a   Greenberg, Joel H ^b   Furuya, Daisuke ^b   Craik, Rebecca L ^a   Fanelli, Patrick ^a   Breslow, Steven ^a   Sheehan, Shaun ^a   Ketschek, Andrea ^a   Damkaoutis, Christa ^a   Reivich, Martin ^b   Hand, Peter ^b  

^a ARCADIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Discrimination; Sensation; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

EID: 12244296133     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)04141-0     Document Type: Article

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