Neuroplasticity in the cat's visual system. Origin, termination, expansion, and increased coupling of the retino-geniculo-middle suprasylvian visual pathway following early ablations of areas 17 and 18

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 334-349

  Payne, Bertram R ^a   Lomber, Stephen G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive plasticity; Behavioral sparing; Extrastriate cortex; Human; Monkey; Transsynaptic labeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CATS; DENERVATION; GENICULATE BODIES; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPSES; TRITIUM; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0031825070     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050466     Document Type: Article

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