Development of rodent macrovibrissae: Effects of neonatal whisker denervation and bilateral neonatal enucleation

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 11-17

  Landers, Margo ^a   Haidarliu, Sebastian ^b   Philip Zeigler, H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Enucleation; Infraorbital nerve; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ENUCLEATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BODY WEIGHT; DENERVATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33746353119     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: 13691651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220600700784     Document Type: Article

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