Sensory enrichment after peripheral nerve injury restores cortical, not thalamic, receptive field organization

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1755-1766

  Florence, Sherre L ^a   Boydston, L A ^a   Hackett, T A ^a   Taub Lachoff, H ^a   Strata, F ^a,b   Niblock, M M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area 3b; Macaque monkey; Median nerve; Plasticity; Ventroposterior nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENERVATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HYPESTHESIA; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0035009433     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01555.x     Document Type: Article

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