Experience-dependent changes in spatiotemporal properties of cutaneous inputs remodel somatosensory cortical maps following skin flap rotation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1245-1260

  Rosselet, Céline ^a   Zennou Azogui, Yoh'i ^a   Escoffier, Guy ^a   Kirmaci, Fatma ^a   Xerri, Christian ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Electrophysiological mapping; Lactation; Rat; Receptive field segregation desegregation; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN SCAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOUCH;

EID: 41149177722     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06081.x     Document Type: Article

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