The effects of binocular suture and dark rearing on the induction of c- fos protein in the rat visual cortex during and after the critical period

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-233

  Sato, Mario T ^a,b   Tokunaga, Atsushi ^a   Kawai, Yoshinori ^a   Shimomura, Yoshikazu ^b   Tano, Yasuo ^b   Senba, Emiko ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Binocular suture; c fos; Critical period; Dark rearing; Rat; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

AGING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DARKNESS; EYELIDS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUTURES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033964133     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00126-1     Document Type: Article

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