Subcortical auditory input to the primary visual cortex in anophthalmic mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-134

  Chabot, Nicole ^a   Charbonneau, Valérie ^a   Laramée, Marie Eve ^a   Tremblay, Robin ^a   Boire, Denis ^a   Bronchti, Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cortical afferent; Dextran biotin; Inferior colliculus; Neuroanatomy; Sensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANOPHTHALMOS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 39649113845     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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