Housing conditions influence motor functions and exploratory behavior following focal damage of the rat brain

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-72

  Gornicka Pawlak, Elzbieta ^a   Jablonska, Anna ^a   Chylinski, Andrzej ^b   Domańska Janik, Krystyna ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b INFOR PL SA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Exploratory behavior; Focal brain damage; Functional recovery; Video tracking system

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 65549103306     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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