The Missing Piece in the ‘Use It or Lose It’ Puzzle: Is Inhibition Regulated by Activity or Does it Act on its Own Accord?

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 295-310

  Sun, Qian Quan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

cortex; development; GABA; inhibition; microcircuits; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MATURATION; EXPERIENCE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 37749039639     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2007.18.3-4.295     Document Type: Article

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