Enlargement of neuronal size in rat auditory cortex after prolonged sound exposure

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-149

  Lu, Hui Pin ^a   Chen, Shur Tzu ^a   Poon, Paul Wai Fung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Neural plasticity; Nucleus; Over activity; Perikaryon

Indexed keywords

TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CELL SIZE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOUND;

EID: 68349137815     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.075     Document Type: Article

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