Late onset muscle plasticity in the whisker pad of enucleated rats

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 15973-15978

  Toscano Márquez, Brenda ^a   Martínez Martínez, Eduardo ^a   Manjarrez, Elías ^b   Martínez, Lourdes ^b   Mendoza Torreblanca, Julieta ^a   Gutiérrez Ospina, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Blindness; Metabolic activity; Motor plasticity; Motor plate potentials; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIBRISSA; WISTAR RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EYE ENUCLEATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; VIBRISSAE;

RATTUS;

EID: 57349138823     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808431105     Document Type: Article

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