Nutritional restriction of omega-3 fatty acids alters topographical fine tuning and leads to a delay in the critical period in the rodent visual system

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 220-229

  de Velasco, Patricia Coelho ^a   Mendonça, Henrique Rocha ^a   Borba, Juliana Maria Carrazzone ^b   Andrade da Costa, Belmira Lara da Silveira ^b   Guedes, Rubem Carlos Araujo ^b   Navarro, Daniela Maria do Amaral Ferraz ^b   Santos, Geanne Karla Novais ^b   Faria Melibeu, Adriana da Cunha ^a   Campello Costa, Paula ^a   Serfaty, Claudio Alberto ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Axonal elimination; Docosahexaenoic acid; Essential fatty acids; Nutrition; Plasticity; Retinal ganglion cells; Retinogeniculate; Retinotectal; Superior colliculus; Topographical maps; Use dependent plasticity; Visual system

Indexed keywords

COCONUT OIL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FISH OIL; NEUROMODULIN; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; SOYBEAN OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RETINA INJURY; RETINOGENICULATE PATHWAY; STRATUM GRISEUM SUPERFICIAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84857505935     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.12.032     Document Type: Article

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