The effect of vibrissa deprivation pattern on the form of plasticity induced in rat barrel cortex

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 122-138

  Wallace, Helen ^a   Fox, Kevin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Experience dependent plasticity; Potentiation; Somatosensory; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0032815204     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229970564     Document Type: Article

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