Environmental enrichment enhances auditory takeover of the occipital cortex in anophthalmic mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3463-3472

  Piché, Mathieu ^a   Robert, Stéphane ^a   Miceli, Dom ^a   Bronchti, Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross modal compensation; Dextran biotin; Neuronal development; Plasticity; ZRDCT An

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; DEXTRAN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; THALAMUS; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANOPHTHALMOS; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, FOS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 10944234988     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03823.x     Document Type: Article

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