Expression of occ1 mRNA in the visual cortex during postnatal development in macaques

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 114-116

  Tochitani, Shiro ^a,b   Hashikawa, Tsutomu ^c   Yamamori, Tetsuo ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity dependent expression; In situ hybridization; occ1 (TGF beta stimulated clone 36 follistatin related protein); Plasticity; Primary visual cortex; Secondary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STRAIN; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037421487     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)01311-3     Document Type: Article

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