Reduced reach-related modulation of motor thalamus neural activity in a rat model of parkinson’s disease

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 15836-15850

  Bosch Bouju, Clémentine ^a,b   Smither, Roseanna A ^a   Hyland, Brian I ^a   Parr Brownlie, Louise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; LTS bursts; Motor thalamus; Parkinson s disease; Reaching task

Indexed keywords

4', 6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; OXIDOPAMINE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; HEMISPHERE; HISTOLOGY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCISION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PARKINSON DISEASE; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THRESHOLD CALCIUM SPIKE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FORELIMB; INNERVATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS;

EID: 84911866153     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0893-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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