Skilled motor learning does not enhance long-term depression in the motor cortex in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1486-1497

  Cohen, Jeremy D ^a   Castro Alamancos, Manuel A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SYNAPSE;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LEARNING; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION (PHYSIOLOGY); MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14144256479     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00958.2004     Document Type: Article

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