Rapid laminar-dependent changes in GFAP immunoreactive astrocytes in the visual cortex of rats reared in a complex environment

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-201

  Jones, Theresa A ^a   Hawrylak, Nicholas ^a,b   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Experience; Glia; Occipital cortex; Stereology; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STEREOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029938538     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4530(95)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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