Effect of aging on ultrasonic vocalizations and laryngeal sensorimotor neurons in rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 351-361

  Basken, Jaime N ^a   Connor, Nadine P ^a,b   Ciucci, Michelle R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Neurodegeneration; Nucleus ambiguus; Rat; Ultrasonic vocalization; Voice

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHONIA; FISCHER/BROWN NORWAY RAT; LARYNX; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT MODEL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; THYROARYTENOID MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BROWN NORWAY RAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; LARYNX MUSCLE; LONG EVANS RAT; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, LONG-EVANS; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84874788125     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3096-6     Document Type: Article

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