Expression of GAP-43 during development and after monocular enucleation in the rat superior colliculus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 477, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-27

  Mendonça, Henrique Rocha ^a   Araújo, Sheila Espírito Santo ^a   Gomes, Ana Lucia Tavares ^a   Sholl Franco, Alfred ^b   da Cunha Faria Melibeu, Adriana ^a   Serfaty, Claudio Alberto ^a   Campello Costa, Paula ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Critical period; GAP 43; Monocular enucleation; Retinotectal development; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENUCLEATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LISTER HOODED RAT; MONOCULAR ENUCLEATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SURVIVAL TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; EYE ENUCLEATION; GAP-43 PROTEIN; RATS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77952954929     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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