Specific invasion of occipital-to-frontal neocortical grafts by axons from the lateral posterior thalamic nucleus consecutive to neonatal lesion of the rat occipital cortex

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 64-73

  Létang, Jérôme ^a   Gaillard, Afsaneh ^a   Roger, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Cortex; Lateral posterior nucleus; Neonatal lesion; Plasticity; Rat; Thalamocortical projection; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; BRAIN INJURY; CELL INVASION; EMBRYO; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0344835863     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6830     Document Type: Article

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