Early blindness results in abnormal corticocortical and thalamocortical connections

Neuroscience

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 843-858

  Karlen, S J ^a   Kahn, D M ^a   Krubitzer, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bilateral enucleations; intracortical projections; marsupials; multiunit electrophysiology; primary visual area; thalamocortical projections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33749263174     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.06.055     Document Type: Article

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