Neonatal whisker clipping alters intracortical, but not thalamocortical projections, in rat barrel cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 412, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-94

  Keller, Asaf ^a   Carlson, Greg C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Development; Plasticity; Somatosensory; Somatotopy; Tract tracing; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0033552041     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990913)412:1<83::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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