Intrinsic patterning and experience-dependent mechanisms that generate eye-specific projections and binocular circuits in the visual pathway

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-187

  Leamey, Catherine A ^a   Van Wart, Audra ^b   Sur, Mriganka ^b  

^a Bosch Institute   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINOCULAR VISION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE CONTROL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; MONOCULAR VISION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETINA; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 67650753761     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.05.006     Document Type: Review

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