C-Fos induction in sensory pathways of rats exploring a novel complex environment: Shifts of active thalamic reticular sectors by predominant sensory cues

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1069-1081

  Montero, V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; cognition; cortical barrels; plasticity; thalamic reticular nucleus; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLINDNESS; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031030852     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00417-4     Document Type: Article

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