Acquisition and performance in a rat sequential reaction time task is not affected by subtotal ventral striatal 6-OHDA lesions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 476, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-31

  Eckart, M T ^a   Huelse Matia, M C ^a   Loer, D ^a   Schwarting, R K W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 OHDA; Dopamine; Instrumental behaviour; Rat; Serial reaction time task; Striatum

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM LESION; DOPAMINE DEPLETION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RAT; REACTION TIME; SEQUENTIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; MALE; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 77952668651     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.075     Document Type: Article

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