Early visual experience prevents but cannot reverse deprivation-induced loss of refinement in adult superior colliculus

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 845-852

  Carrasco, María Magdalena ^a   Pallas, Sarah L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult plasticity; Low vision; Retinotectal; Rodent; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; GROUPS BY AGE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749832415     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806230177     Document Type: Article

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