Tactile stimulation after frontal or parietal cortical injury in infant rats facilitates functional recovery and produces synaptic changes in adjacent cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-120

  Kolb, Bryan ^a   Gibb, Robbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Early brain injury; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Tactile stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TACTILE STIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; DENDRITE; FRONTAL LOBE; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SYNAPSES; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955056710     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.024     Document Type: Article

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