Lesion-induced thalamocortical axonal plasticity in the S1 cortex is independent of NMDA receptor function in excitatory cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 9171-9175

  Datwani, Akash ^a   Iwasato, Takuji ^b   Itohara, Shigeyoshi ^c   Erzurumlu, Reha S ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrels; Conditional knock out; Cre loxP system; Glutamatergic transmission; Somatosensory cortex; Thalamocortical synaptic plasticity; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULE CELL; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0036849615     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-21-09171.2002     Document Type: Article

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