Brain repair in a unilateral rat model of Huntington's disease: New insights into impairment and restoration of forelimb movement patterns

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1735-1751

  Klein, Alexander ^a   Lane, Emma L ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjusting step test; Fluoro Gold (FG); Skilled reaching; Spontaneous behavior; Transplantation; Vibrissae evoked hand placing test; Whole ganglionic eminence (wGE)

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS CELL; FORELIMB; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FORELIMB; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEOSTRIATUM; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS;

EID: 84884690345     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X657918     Document Type: Article

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