Plasticity and stability of somatosensory maps in thalamus and cortex

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 494-497

  Fox, Kevin ^a   Glazewski, Stanislaw ^a   Schulze, Silke ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033855695     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00112-4     Document Type: Review

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