Functional changes at periphery and cortex following dorsal root lesions in adult monkeys

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 476-481

  Darian Smith, Corinna ^a   Brown, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEAFFERENTATION; DORSAL ROOT; INDEX FINGER; MACACA; MONKEY; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THUMB;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK; FINGERS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; THUMB; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033930628     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74852     Document Type: Article

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