Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 877-888

  Hensch, Takao K ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NEUROTROPHIN; PLASMIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AMBLYOPIA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE DOMINANCE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMERSION; INTERNEURON; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR NERVE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27644551416     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1787     Document Type: Review

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