Critical period plasticity of axonal arbors of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in rat somatosensory cortex: Layer-specific reduction of projections into deprived cortical columns

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1588-1603

  Broser, P ^a   Grinevich, V ^a,b   Osten, P ^a,b   Sakmann, B ^a   Wallace, D J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon anatomy; Barrel cortex; Extended focus imaging bright field microscopy; Lentivirus; Whisker

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 45849097532     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm189     Document Type: Article

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