Comparable activity levels in developmentally deprived and non-deprived layer IV cortical columns of the adult rat primary somatosensory cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-8

  Gutiérrez Ospina, Gabriel ^a   Díaz Cintra, Sofía ^a   Aguirre Portilla, Adriana ^a   Aguilar Vázquez, Azucena ^a   López, Sandra Robles ^a   Barrios, Fernando A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Barrels; Brain growth; Cerebral cortex; Neural activity; Plasticity; Primary somatosensory cortex; Sensory deprivation; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0345020375     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00218-3     Document Type: Article

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