Glutamate receptor blockade alters the development of intracortical connections in rat barrel cortex

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-84

  Dagnew, Elias ^a,c   Latchamsetty, Kalyan ^a   Erinjeri, Joseph P ^a   Miller, Brad ^a   Fox, Kevin ^b,d   Woolsey, Thomas A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neocortex; NMDA receptors; Somatosensory; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEXTRAN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; POLYMER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0037262867     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0899022031000083852     Document Type: Article

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