Tactile impoverishment and sensorimotor restriction deteriorate the forepaw cutaneous map in the primary somatosensory cortex of adult rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 518-531

  Coq, Jacques Olivier ^a   Xerri, Christian ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Adult rat; Cortical plasticity; Environmental impoverishment; Forepaw cutaneous map; Primary somatosensory cortex; Sensory motor deprivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; GLABROUS SKIN; HEMISPHERE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SKIN NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WEANING;

EID: 0032761970     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050922     Document Type: Article

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