A chronic mouse model of Parkinson's disease has a reduced gait pattern certainty

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 429, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-42

  Kurz, Max J ^a   Pothakos, Konstantinos ^a   Jamaluddin, Sakeena ^a   Scott Pandorf, Melissa ^a   Arellano, Chris ^a   Lau, Yuen Sum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Gait; Locomotion; MPTP; Parkinson's disease; Probenecid; Variability

Indexed keywords

1,2,3,6 TETRAHYDRO 1 METHYL 4 PHENYLPYRIDINE; DOPAMINE; PROBENECID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE TEST; GAIT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MPTP POISONING;

EID: 36148944310     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.09.060     Document Type: Article

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