The somatosensory cortex of reeler mutant mice shows absent layering but intact formation and behavioral activation of columnar somatotopic maps

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 15700-15709

  Wagener, Robin J ^a,c   Dávid, Csaba ^a,b   Zhao, Shanting ^a   Haas, Carola A ^a   Staiger, Jochen F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ER81; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RORB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RRGS8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REELER MOUSE MUTANT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 78449252286     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3707-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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