Impaired motor coordination on static rods in BSE-infected mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 291-295

  Kempster, S ^a   Collins, M E ^a   Deacon, R ^b   Edington, N ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BSE; Murine; Prion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; CATTLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 4043167106     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.01.021     Document Type: Article

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