Serotonin depletion and barrel cortex development: Impact of growth impairment vs. Serotonin effects on thalamocortical endings

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 181-191

  Persico, A M ^a   Altamura, C ^a   Calia, E ^b   Puglisi Allegra, S ^c   Ventura, R ^c   Lucchese, F ^c   Keller, Flavio ^a  

^a Laboratory of Neuroscience   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHETAMINE; FENCLONINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RETARDATION; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

EID: 0033960979     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.2.181     Document Type: Article

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