Stress precipitates functional deficits following striatal silent stroke: A synergistic effect

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-260

  Faraji, Jamshid ^a,b   Sutherland, Robert J ^a   Metz, Gerlinde A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ischemic lesion; Skilled movement; Stress; Striatum; Ziggurat task

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HISTOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SKILL; SPATIAL PERFORMANCE; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENDOTHELIN-1; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STROKE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 80054972199     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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