Activity-dependent thalamocortical axon branching

Neuroscientist

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-368

  Hayano, Yasufumi ^a   Yamamoto, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon branching; Cortical development; Gene expression; Layer specificity; Neural activity; Thalamocortical axon

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NETRIN 1; SEMAPHORIN 3A;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; THALAMUS;

EID: 47549117547     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858408317272     Document Type: Review

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