Critical period for the whisker-barrel system

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-12

  Erzurumlu, Reha S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARKIN; PINK1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77649340160     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.12.025     Document Type: Note

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