Interruption of Visual Deprivation during Development Restores the Normal Density of Peptidergic Neurons in the Rat Visual Cortex

Journal of Brain Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Antonopoulos, John ^a   Papadopoulos, Georgios C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dark rearing; Development; Immunocytochemistry; NPY neurons; SRIF neurons; Visual areas

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; NEURONS; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1842505205     PISSN: 09448160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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