Visual system plasticity in mammals: The story of monocular enucleation-induced vision loss

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Nys, Julie ^a   Scheyltjens, Isabelle ^a   Arckens, Lutgarde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Age; Cortical plasticity; Deafferentation; Deprivation; Multimodal; Reorganization; Visual system

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GELATINASE B; GLUCOSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN REGION; ENUCLEATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84930503822     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00060     Document Type: Review

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