Altered information processing in the prefrontal cortex of Huntington's disease mouse models

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8973-8982

  Walker, Adam G ^a   Miller, Benjamin R ^a   Fritsch, Jenna N ^a   Barton, Scott J ^a   Rebec, George V ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursting; Corticostriatal pathway; Electrophysiology; Knock in; Spike synchrony; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; WILD TYPE; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 54049105790     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2804-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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