Experience-dependent alteration of synaptic zinc in rat somatosensory barrel cortex

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-150

  Land, Peter W ^a   Akhtar, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development glutamate; Histochemistry; Tactile deprivation

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION (INTENTIONAL); SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STAINING; SYNAPSE VESICLE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPIL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE; ZINC;

EID: 0032791186     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229970573     Document Type: Article

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