Brain-derived neurotrophic factor reverses experience-dependent synaptic modifications in kitten visual cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1554-1559

  Galuske, Ralf A W ^a   Kim, Dae Shik ^a,c   Castrén, Eero ^b,d   Thoenen, Hans ^b   Singer, Wolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cat; Monocular deprivation; Neurotrophins; Plasticity; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOCHROME C; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SYNAPSES; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029954345     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01618.x     Document Type: Article

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