Monocular deprivation induces homosynaptic long-term depression in visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6717, 1999, Pages 347-350

  Rittenhouse, Cynthia D ^a,b   Shouval, Harel Z ^b   Paradiso, Michael A ^b   Bear, Mark F ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TETRODOTOXIN; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033611502     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16922     Document Type: Article

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