Altered GABAergic markers, increased binocularity and reduced plasticity in the visual cortex of engrailed-2 knockout mice

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Allegra, Manuela ^a,b   Genovesi, Sacha ^c   Maggia, Marika ^c   Cenni, Maria C ^a   Zunino, Giulia ^c   Sgadò, Paola ^c   Caleo, Matteo ^a   Bozzi, Yuri ^a,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical period; Inhibition; Monocular deprivation; Neurodevelopmental disorder; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED 2; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AFFINITY LABELING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BINOCULAR VISION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84902591313     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00163     Document Type: Article

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