Effects of bilateral enucleation on the size of visual and nonvisual areas of the brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1360-1371

  Karlen, Sarah J ^a   Krubitzer, Leah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal plasticity; Marsupial; Monodelphis domestica; Neocortex; V1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; ENUCLEATION; HEMISPHERE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MESENCEPHALON; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; MONODELPHIS; NEOCORTEX; ORGAN SIZE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 66549121154     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn176     Document Type: Article

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