Assessing behavioural function following a pyramidotomy lesion of the corticospinal tract in adult mice

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 524-539

  Starkey, Michelle L ^a   Barritt, Andrew W ^a   Yip, Ping K ^a   Davies, Meirion ^a   Hamers, Frank P T ^b   McMahon, Stephen B ^a   Bradbury, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract (CST); Forepaw function; Mice; Plasticity; Pyramidal tract; Pyramidotomy; Regeneration; Unilateral lesion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FOREFOOT; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REARING; RELIABILITY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROTEIN KINASE C; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TIME FACTORS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 24744433280     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.06.017     Document Type: Article

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