Experience-induced plasticity of thalamocortical axons in both juveniles and adults

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4629-4648

  Wimmer, Verena C ^a,b   Broser, Philip J ^a   Kuner, Thomas ^a,c   Bruno, Randy M ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoassociated virus; Barrel cortex; Deprivation; Environmental enrichment; Plasticity; Thalamocortical

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INNERVATION; JUVENILE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPENDOVIRUS; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 77957896880     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22483     Document Type: Article

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