Breaking the balance: Ocular BDNF-injections induce visual asymmetry in pigeons

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1123-1134

  Manns, Martina ^a   Freund, Nadja ^a   Leske, Oliver ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calbindin; Neurotrophic factor; Parvalbumin; Ras activation; Retina; Tectum

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALBINDIN; PARVALBUMIN; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EYE DOMINANCE; GRIT GRAIN DISCRIMINATION TEST; HATCHLING; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; RAS PROTEINS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 46149110300     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20647     Document Type: Article

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