Dopamine in motor cortex is necessary for skill learning and synaptic plasticity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Molina Luna, Katiuska ^a   Pekanovic, Ana ^a   Röhrich, Sebastian ^a   Hertler, Benjamin ^a   Schubring Giese, Maximilian ^a   Rioult Pedotti, Mengia Seraina ^a,b   Luft, Andreas R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 70349400360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007082     Document Type: Article

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