Developmental changes in NMDA receptor-mediated visual activity in the rat superior colliculus, and the effect of dark rearing

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 335-344

  Binns, K E ^a   Salt, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AP5; Deprivation; Glutamate; Plasticity; Rat; Visual

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; 6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; IONTOPHORESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION;

EID: 0031947239     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050407     Document Type: Article

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