Adult visual experience promotes recovery of primary visual cortex from long-term monocular deprivation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 573-580

  Fischer, Quentin S ^a   Aleem, Salman ^a   Zhou, Hongyi ^a   Pham, Tony A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE; MONOCULAR VISION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; AGE; ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; C57BL MOUSE; CONVALESCENCE; EYE DOMINANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34748916577     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.676707     Document Type: Article

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