Deficits in a lateralized associative learning task in dopamine-depleted rats with functional recovery by dopamine-rich transplants

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1953-1959

  Dowd, Eilis ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Cell transplant; Lister Hooded rats; Medial forebrain bundle; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO CELL; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LISTER HOODED RAT; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; ROTATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DOPAMINE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; OXIDOPAMINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 8144229502     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03637.x     Document Type: Article

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