Activity-dependent receptive field changes in the surround of adult cat visual cortex lesions

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1585-1596

  Schweigart, Georg ^a,b   Eysel, Ulf T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excitability; Excitotoxicity; Ibotenic acid; Plasticity; Visual stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE WAVE; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036460497     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01996.x     Document Type: Article

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