Lifelong learning: ocular dominance plasticity in mouse visual cortex

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 451-459

  Hofer, Sonja B ^a   Mrsic Flogel, Thomas D ^a   Bonhoeffer, Tobias ^a   Hübener, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN REGION; EYE DOMINANCE; EYELID CLOSURE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETINA; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; GENICULATE BODIES; LEARNING; MICE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33746559730     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.06.007     Document Type: Review

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