Experience-dependent plasticity is impaired in adult rat barrel cortex after whiskers are unused in early postnatal life

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 358-366

  Rema, V ^a   Armstrong James, Michael ^a,b   Ebner, Ford F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrel field cortex; Cortical development; Neural plasticity; Rat; Sensory deprivation; Whisker pairing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FETUS MATURITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLASTICITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0037223308     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-01-00358.2003     Document Type: Article

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