Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 10072-10077

  Bartoletti, Alessandro ^a   Cancedda, Laura ^a   Reid, Susan W ^b   Tessarollo, Lino ^b   Porciatti, Vittorio ^c   Pizzorusso, Tommaso ^a,c   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,c  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

LTP; Neurotrophins; Ocular dominance; TrkB; Visual cortex; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0036895965     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-23-10072.2002     Document Type: Article

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