Reorganization of the Connectivity of Cortical Field DZ in Congenitally Deaf Cat

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Barone, Pascal ^a   Lacassagne, Ludovic ^a   Kral, Andrej ^b,c  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL TRACT TRACER;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CATS; DEAFNESS; INJECTIONS; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; NERVE NET; NEURONS; STAINING AND LABELING; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84876096977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060093     Document Type: Article

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