Parafascicular thalamic nucleus activity in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-281

  Parr Brownlie, Louise C ^a   Poloskey, Stacey L ^a   Bergstrom, Debra A ^a   Walters, Judith R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Intralaminar thalamic nucleus; Low threshold calcium spike (LTS) bursts; Parkinson's disease; Slow wave oscillations; Subthalamic nucleus; Thalamosubthalamic pathway

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE; URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; INCIDENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REBOUND; RECORDING; SPIKE WAVE; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DENERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OXIDOPAMINE; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 67349132392     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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