Neonatal enucleation during a critical period reduces the precision of cortico-cortical projections in visual cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 501, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 152-156

  Bock, A S ^a   Olavarria, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Corpus callosum; Deafferentation; Deprivation; Divergence; Enucleation; Interhemispheric; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BLINDNESS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79961207742     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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