Late-life action tremor in a southern sea otter (Enhydris lutris nereis)

Movement Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 222-226

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c,f   Murray, Michael J ^d   Miller, Melissa A ^e   Pullman, Seth L ^b   Vonsattel, Jean Paul G ^c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c University of California ^*  (United States)

^d MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

'Pathology; Animal; Essential tremor; Toxin; Tremor; Vacuolation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARNIVORA; CELL VACUOLE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MAMMAL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; TREMOR; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIDEORECORDING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEOCORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONS; OTTERS; PURKINJE CELLS; SPINAL CORD; TREMOR; VACUOLES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 1542300930     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10645     Document Type: Article

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