Experience-dependent plasticity of rat barrel cortex: Redistribution of activity across barrel-columns

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-31

  Lebedev, Mikhail A ^a,c   Mirabella, Giovanni ^a   Erchova, Irina ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c NIH Animal Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0033981145     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.1.23     Document Type: Article

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