Compensatory and transneuronal plasticity after early collicular ablation

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 500, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1117-1126

  Dunlop, Sarah A ^a,b   Rodger, Jenny ^a   Beazley, Lyn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ablation; Brain injury; Development; Neuroplasticity; Retina; Superior colliculus; Transneuronal; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; MARSUPIAL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RODENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM; WALLABY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACROPODIDAE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33846211966     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21221     Document Type: Article

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