Experience-dependent plasticity and vision restoration in rats after optic nerve crush

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2295-2307

  Prilloff, Sylvia ^a   Henrich Noack, Petra ^a   Kropf, Siegfried ^a   Sabel, Bernhard A ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

optic nerve crush; recovery of vision; rehabilitation; visual experience; visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE CRUSH; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 78650121477     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1439     Document Type: Article

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