Walking pattern analysis after unilateral 6-OHDA lesion and transplantation of foetal dopaminergic progenitor cells in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-325

  Klein, Alexander ^a,b   Wessolleck, Johanna ^b   Papazoglou, Anna ^b   Metz, Gerlinde A ^a   Nikkhah, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Footprints; Gait; Ladder rung walking test; Neuroregeneration; Parkinson's disease; Ventral mesencephalic graft

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETAL STEM CELL; GAIT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTATION; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GAIT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; OXIDOPAMINE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 61349185045     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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