A unifying model for activity-dependent and activity-independent mechanisms predicts complete structure of topographic maps in ephrin-A deficient mice

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-114

  Tsigankov, Dmitry N ^a   Koulakov, Alexei A ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Chemoaffinity; Development; Ephrin; Knockout mice; Retina; Retinal waves; Superior colliculus; Topographic map

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; MAPS; NEURONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT; ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY; CHEMOAFFINITY; DEVELOPMENT; EPHRINS; KNOCKOUT MICE; RETINA; RETINAL WAVE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP;

MAMMALS;

EPHRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION;

EID: 33745805527     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-9575-7     Document Type: Article

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