Postnatal growth and column spacing in cat primary visual cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-158

  Rathjen, Stefan ^a,b   Schmidt, Kerstin E ^b   Löwel, Siegrid ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Deoxyglucose; Area 17; Columnar spacing; Ocular dominance columns; Postnatal growth

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CAT; EYE DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0344406179     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1342-z     Document Type: Article

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