Cerebellar-dependent expression of motor learning during eyeblink conditioning in head-fixed mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 14845-14853

  Heiney, Shane A ^a   Wohl, Margot P ^a   Chettih, Selmaan N ^a   Ruffolo, Luis I ^a   Medina, Javier F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Classical conditioning; Interpositus; Mouse; Neurophysiology; Timing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM DEPENDENT EXPRESSION; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; VIDEORECORDER; ANIMAL; BLINKING; C57BL MOUSE; DEVICES; EXERCISE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOVEMENT; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 84908529606     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2820-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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