Synaptic reorganization in the adult rat's ventral cochlear nucleus following its total sensory deafferentation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hildebrandt, Heika ^a   Hoffmann, Nadine A ^a,b   Illing, Robert Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ETHANOLIC PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID; GEPHYRIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROMODULIN; PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; DEAFFERENTATION; DECORTICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEARING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STAINING; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC CONTACT ZONE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENTRAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HEARING LOSS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HEARING LOSS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 80051927958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023686     Document Type: Article

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