Food restriction enhances visual cortex plasticity in adulthood

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Spolidoro, Maria ^a   Baroncelli, Laura ^a   Putignano, Elena ^b   Maya Vetencourt, José Fernando ^b   Viegi, Alessandro ^b   Maffei, Lamberto ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULTHOOD; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIET RESTRICTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; AGE; ANIMAL; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; LONG EVANS RAT; MONOCULAR VISION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS;

AGE FACTORS; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79956283069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1323     Document Type: Article

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