Tactile experience induces c-Fos expression in rat barrel cortex

Learning and Memory

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 116-122

  Filipkowski, Robert K ^a,b   Rydz, Marek ^a,c   Berdel, Bozena ^d   Morys, Janusz ^d   Kaczmarek, Leszek ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENES, FOS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0034004209     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.7.2.116     Document Type: Article

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