Integrating PET with behavioral neuroscience using RatCAP tomography

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 647-655

  Schulz, Daniela ^a   Vaska, Paul ^b,c  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake behaving rat; Conscious animal PET; Constant infusion; Dopamine D2 receptor; Positron emission tomography; Striatum

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; RAT; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NEURONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 83655181400     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/RNS.2011.052     Document Type: Article

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