Digit removal leads to discrepancies between the structural and functional organization of the forepaw barrel subfield in layer IV of rat primary somatosensory cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 417-426

  McCandlish, Carl A ^a   Li, Cheng X ^a   Waters, Robert S ^a   Howard, Eugene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel field; Barrels; Cytochrome oxidase; Forepaw; Mapping; Rat

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEAFFERENTATION; FINGER AMPUTATION; FOREFOOT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0030003599     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00227264     Document Type: Article

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