Video-Tracking-Box linked to Smart software as a tool for evaluation of locomotor activity and orientation in brain-injured rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-57

  Otero, Laura ^a   Zurita, Mercedes ^a   Aguayo, Concepción ^a   Bonilla, Celia ^a   Rodríguez, Alicia ^a   Vaquero, Jesús ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Functional assessment; Smart test

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A;

AMNESIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RAT; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; VIDEO TRACKING BOX SMART TEST; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77950458603     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.01.036     Document Type: Article

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