Social instability blocks functional restitution following motor cortex stroke in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 219-226

  Silasi, Gergely ^a   Hamilton, Derek A ^b   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical devascularization; Dendritic plasticity; Golgi Cox; Long Evans Rats; Skilled reaching; Social stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STRESS; STROKE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE;

EID: 38749143647     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.10.030     Document Type: Article

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