Spontaneous pinwheel annihilation during visual development

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 73-78

  Wolf, F ^a   Geisel, T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032480338     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25736     Document Type: Article

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