Postnatal development of functional properties of visual cortical cells in rats with excitotoxic lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-123

  Siciliano, Rosita ^a   Fontanesi, Gigliola ^a   Casamenti, Fiorella ^b   Berardi, Nicoletta ^b,c   Bagnoli, Paola ^a   Domenici, Luciano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Ocular dominance; Orientation sensitivity; Postnatal development; Rat; Receptive field size; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030774929     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800008816     Document Type: Article

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