Experience-dependent plasticity of adult rat S1 cortex requires local NMDA receptor activation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 10196-10206

  Rema, V ^a   Armstrong James, M ^b   Ebner, F F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AP5; Barrel field cortex; Cortical plasticity; Glutamate receptors; NMDA receptor; Whisker pairing

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0032403473     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-23-10196.1998     Document Type: Article

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