GABAergic inhibition in visual cortical plasticity

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2010, Pages

  Sale, Alessandro ^a   Berardi, Nicoletta ^a,b   Spolidoro, Maria ^c   Baroncelli, Laura ^c   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Critical period; Environmental enrichment; GABA; Ocular dominance plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952540903     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2010.00010     Document Type: Article

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