Post-stroke protection from maladaptive effects of learning with the non-paretic forelimb by bimanual home cage experience in C57BL/6 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 252, Issue , 2013, Pages 180-187

  Kerr, Abigail L ^a   Wolke, Malerie L ^a   Bell, Jared A ^a   Jones, Theresa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience dependent plasticity; Learned nonuse; Motor cortex; Motor rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; LEARNING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY; LEARNED NONUSE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR REHABILITATION; STROKE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIN-1; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR SKILLS; PARESIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879732598     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.062     Document Type: Article

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