Remodeling of lesioned kitten visual cortex after xenotransplantation of fetal mouse neopallium

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 395, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-111

  Ourednik, Jitka ^a,b   Ourednik, Wenzel ^a   Mitchell, Donald E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cat; Cerebral cortex; Neural transplantation; Plasticity; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; CAT; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CATS; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOCORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032565764     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980525)395:1<91::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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