Refinement of thalamocortical arbors and emergence of barrel domains in the primary somatosensory cortex: A study of normal and monoamine oxidase A knock-out mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 8541-8552

  Rebsam, Alexandra ^a   Seif, Isabelle ^b   Gaspar, Patricia ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Activity dependent mechanisms; Axon branch formation; Axon growth; Collateral retraction; Serotonin; Synaptic stabilization

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; CARBOCYANINE; SEROTONIN 1B RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME DEFECT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036812507     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-19-08541.2002     Document Type: Article

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