Auditory responses in the visual cortex of neonatally enucleated rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1144-1156

  Piche M ^a   Chabot, N ^b   Bronchti, G ^b   Miceli, D ^b   Lepore, F ^a   Guillemot, J P ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

audiovisual plasticity; blind; c fos; cross modal; enucleated rat; single cell electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; TONOTOPY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLINDNESS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33947318239     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.12.050     Document Type: Article

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