Increased number and size of dendritic spines in ipsilateral barrel field cortex following unilateral whisker trimming in postnatal rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 400, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 110-124

  Vees, Aretha M ^a   Micheva, Kristina D ^a   Beaulieu, Clermont ^a   Descarries, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Axo spinous synapses; GABA synapses; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0032511757     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981012)400:1<110::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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