Somatosensory cross-modal plasticity in the superior colliculus of visually deafferented rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1457-1470

  Mundinano I C ^a   Martinez Millan L ^b  

^a Department of Neurology   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

anterograde tracing; c fos immunohistochemistry; enucleation; sprouting; vibrissae stimulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VIBRISSA; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOMORPHINE; AXONS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74149093040     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.11.041     Document Type: Article

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