Light-induced Egr-1 expression in the striate cortex of the opossum

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-146

  Pinaud, Raphael ^a,b   Vargas, Claudia D ^b   Ribeiro, Sidarta ^c,d   Monteiro, Marcos V ^b   Tremere, Liisa A ^a   Vianney, Paulo ^a,b   Delgado, Pabel ^d   Mello, Claudio V ^a,d   Rocha Miranda, Carlos Eduardo ^b   Volchan, Eliane ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Didelphis; Immediate early gene; Topography; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EGR 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0038496829     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(03)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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