Development and organization of ocular dominance bands in primary visual cortex of the sable ferret

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 407, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-165

  Ruthazer, E S ^a,b   Baker, G E ^a,c   Stryker, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area 17; Cortical columns; Critical period; Functional architecture; Thalamocortical; Transneuronal

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; PROLINE; SILVER;

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; EYE DOMINANCE; FERRET; ISOTOPE LABELING; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MODULATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX; WHEAT GERM;

EID: 0033519290     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990503)407:2<151::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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