Effects of bilateral electrolytic lesions of the dorsomedial striatum on motor behavior and spatial learning in rats

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 52-59

  Mukutenga, Pamphyle Abedi ^a   Taghzouti, Khalid ^a   Bengelloun, Wail A ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Dorsomedial striatum; Electrolytic lesions; Motor functions; Rats; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION DISORDER; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSOMEDIAL STRIATUM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84873480618     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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