Sensory cortex limits cortical maps and drives top-down plasticity in thalamocortical circuits

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1060-1067

  Zembrzycki, Andreas ^a   Chou, Shen Ju ^a,b,c   Ashery Padan, Ruth ^b,c,d   Stoykova, Anastassia ^b   O'Leary, Dennis D M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREFOOT; FRONTAL CORTEX; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MANDIBLE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRINCIPAL SENSORY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTOSOME; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; BODY IMAGE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; POSTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84880920088     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3454     Document Type: Article

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