Lasting facilitatory effects of neonatal vibrissae removal on the propagation of cortical spreading depression: An electrophysiological study in well-nourished and early-malnourished adult rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 281-288

  Da Silva Tenório, Angélica ^a   Da Silva Moura, Fábia Rossana ^a   De Lima Silva, Levy Petrus Silvestre ^a   Guedes, Rubem Carlos Araújo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain development; Cortical spreading depression; Lasting brain alteration; Malnutrition; Neural plasticity; Sensory deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; HEMISPHERE; LACTATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAIR REMOVAL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

RATTUS;

EID: 70849084632     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423481     Document Type: Article

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