Instrumental learning within the rat spinal cord: Localization of the essential neural circuit

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 538-547

  Liu, Grace T ^a   Ferguson, Adam R ^a   Crown, Eric D ^a   Bopp, Anne C ^a   Miranda, Rajesh C ^a   Grau, James W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumental; Learning; Lumbar; Sacral; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFUSION; HINDLIMB; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SHOCK; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HINDLIMB; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 17444420289     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.2.538     Document Type: Article

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