Development of early motor learning and topical motor skills in a model of cerebellar degeneration

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 65-72

  Křížková, Alena ^a   Vožeh, František ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Cerebellar degeneration; Lurcher mutants; Motor learning; Overtraining; Topical motor skills

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ROTATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EID: 1642280390     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00247-X     Document Type: Article

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