Auditory discrimination training rescues developmentally degraded directional selectivity and restores mature expression of GABA A and AMPA receptor subunits in rat auditory cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-307

  Guo, Fei ^a   Zhang, Jiping ^a   Zhu, Xiaoqing ^a   Cai, Rui ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaoming ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA GluR2 receptor; Auditory cortex; Directional selectivity; GABAA receptors; Pulsed noise exposure; Rat; Sensory discrimination training

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA3; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSED NOISE EXPOSURE; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; MALE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REWARD; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84862782910     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.041     Document Type: Article

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