Effects of visual experience on vascular endothelial growth factor expression during the postnatal development of the rat visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1630-1639

  Bengoetxea, Harkaitz ^a,b   Argandoña, Enrike G ^a   Lafuente, José V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Critical period; Dark rearing; Enriched environment; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MEMORY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 45849137396     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm190     Document Type: Article

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