Sensorimotor behavioral tests for use in a juvenile rat model of traumatic brain injury: Assessment of sex differences

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 214-222

  Russell, Kristin L ^a   Kutchko, Katrina M ^a   Fowler, Stephen C ^b   Berman, Nancy E J ^a   Levant, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Actometer; Beam walk; Controlled cortical impact; Forelimb; Hindlimb; Juvenile; Sensorimotor; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GAIT; GROWTH ACCELERATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79960255401     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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