Does dendritic growth underly recovery from neonatal occipital lesions in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 125-133

  Kolb, Bryan ^a   Ladowski, Ricki ^a   Gibb, Robbin ^a   Gorny, Grazyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical lesion; Cross modal compensation; Dendritic branching; Recovery; Spatial navigation; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HISTOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029884486     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00208-1     Document Type: Article

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