Structural plasticity of circuits in cortical neuropil

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 8477-8488

  Escobar, Gina ^a   Fares, Tarec ^a   Stepanyants, Armen ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity fraction; Filling fraction; Potential synapse; Spine length; Structural entropy; Structural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DENDRITIC SPINE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONKEY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MACACA; NERVE CELL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; SYNAPTOSOME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MACACA; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SYNAPSES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 51649125769     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2046-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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