Experimentally induced retinal projections to the ferret auditory thalamus: Development of clustered eye-specific patterns in a novel target

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2040-2055

  Angelucci, Alessandra ^a   Clascá, Francisco ^a   Bricolo, Emanuela ^a   Cramer, Karina S ^a   Sur, Mriganka ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

afferents; cholera toxin subunit B; crossmodal plasticity; eye specific segregation; medial geniculate nucleus; retinogeniculate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; FERRET; GROWTH REGULATION; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031036854     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-06-02040.1997     Document Type: Article

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