Degradation of stimulus selectivity of visual cortical cells in senescent rhesus monkeys

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 384-390

  Schmolesky, Matthew T ^a   Wang, Youngchang ^a   Pu, Mingliang ^a   Leventhal, Audie G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; FEMALE; GANGLION; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; RHESUS MONKEY; SENESCENCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034071014     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73957     Document Type: Article

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