Cortical GABAergic interneurons in cross-modal plasticity following early blindness

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Desgent, Sébastien ^a,b   Ptito, Maurice ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CROSS MODAL PLASTICITY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HAMSTER; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX; AGE; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GABAERGIC NEURONS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84863763937     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: 16875443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/590725     Document Type: Review

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