Haphazard neural connections underlie the visual deficits of cats with strabismic or deprivation amblyopia

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-124

  Gingras, Guy ^a   Mitchell, Donald E ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acuity; Alignment accuracy; Contrast discrimination; Development; Ocular dominance; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRIVATION AMBLYOPIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLINDNESS; BODY PATTERNING; CATS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRABISMUS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 23044477312     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04201.x     Document Type: Article

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