Environmental enrichment promotes fiber sprouting after deafferentation of the superior colliculus in the adult rat brain

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 515-519

  Caleo, Matteo ^a   Tropea, Daniela ^b   Rossi, Chiara ^a   Gianfranceschi, Laura ^b   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Optic tectum; Retinal ganglion cells; Synaptic reorganization

Indexed keywords

SYNAPSIN I; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEAFFERENTATION; DENERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA INJURY; RETINA NERVE CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENVIRONMENT; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSINS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 62049085456     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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