Emergence of Feature-Specific Connectivity in Cortical Microcircuits in the Absence of Visual Experience

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 29, 2014, Pages 9812-9816

  Ko, Ho ^a,c   Mrsic Flogel, Thomas D ^a,b   Hofer, Sonja B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Experience dependent; Functional microcircuit organization; Microcircuit development; Mouse visual cortex; Synaptic connectivity; Two photon imaging

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT; FUNCTIONAL MICROCIRCUIT ORGANIZATION; MICROCIRCUIT DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE VISUAL CORTEX; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY; TWO-PHOTON IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCIUM; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904289845     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0875-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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