Shifts in Developmental Timing, and Not Increased Levels of Experience-Dependent Neuronal Activity, Promote Barrel Expansion in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex of Rats Enucleated at Birth

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Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fetter Pruneda, Ingrid ^a   Geovannini Acuña, Helga ^a   Santiago, Cecilia ^a   Ibarrarán Viniegra, Ana Sofía ^a   Martínez Martínez, Eduardo ^a   Sandoval Velasco, Marcela ^a   Uribe Figueroa, Laura ^b   Padilla Cortés, Patricia ^a   Mercado Célis, Gabriela ^b   Gutiérrez Ospina, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE MEDICINA GENÓMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DEACETYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ELONGATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RAT; REARING; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; HISTONES; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VALPROIC ACID;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84872844394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054940     Document Type: Article

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