Aged F344 rats exhibit altered electrophysiological activity in locomotor-unrelated but not locomotor-related striatal neurons

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 509-515

  Stanford, John A ^a   Gerhardt, Greg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Awake; Basal ganglia; Behaving; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Freely moving; Multiunit; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MOTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 1542298225     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(03)00128-3     Document Type: Article

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