Deficits in motor performance after pedunculopontine lesions in rats - impairment depends on demands of task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3224-3236

  Maclaren, Duncan A A ^a   Santini, Joseph A ^a   Russell, Ashley L ^a   Markovic, Tamara ^a   Clark, Stewart D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON ADDICTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Motor control; Motor performance; Parkinson's disease; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Sensorimotor integration

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXPERIMENTAL LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY TEST; HABITUATION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VERMICELLI HANDLING TASK; ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 84907986514     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12666     Document Type: Article

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