Biphasic reorganization of somatotopy in the primary motor cortex follows facial nerve lesions in adult rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 179-182

  Toldi, Jozsef ^a,b   Laskawi, Rainer ^c   Landgrebe, Michael ^a   Wolff, Joachim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial nerve lesion; Motor cortex; Neurophysiology; Neuroplasticity; Somatotopic representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030058836     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12295-8     Document Type: Article

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