Adult experience-dependent plasticity of S1 barrel cortex in the normal and monoamine oxidase-A knockout (Tg8) mouse

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1269-1279

  Yang, Zhuo ^a   Seif, Isabelle ^b   Armstrong James, Michael ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0036892671     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/12.12.1269     Document Type: Article

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