The size of the whisker barrel field in adult rats: Minimal nondirectional asymmetry and limited modifiability by chronic changes of the sensory input

Brain Research

Volumn 1025, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 130-138

  Machín, Raquel ^a   Blasco, Beatriz ^a   Bjugn, Roger ^b   Avendaño, Carlos ^a  

^a AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cerebral asymmetry; Deafferentation; Sensory cortex; Stereology; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TRANSECTION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORY STIMULATION; THICKNESS; VARIANCE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 5344222681     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.07.077     Document Type: Article

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