Shifts in developmental timing, and not increased levels of experience-dependent neuronal activity, promote barrel expansion in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats enucleated at birth.

Shifts in developmental timing, and not increased levels of experience-dependent neuronal activity, promote barrel expansion in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats enucleated at birth.

Birth-enucleated rodents display enlarged representations of whiskers (i.e., barrels of the posteromedial subfield) in the primary somatosensory cortex. Although the historical view maintains that barrel expansion is due to incremental increases in neuronal activity along the trigeminal pathway duri...

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Main Authors: Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Helga Geovannini-Acuña, Cecilia Santiago, Ana Sofía Ibarrarán-Viniegra, Eduardo Martínez-Martínez, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Laura Uribe-Figueroa, Patricia Padilla-Cortés, Gabriela Mercado-Célis, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Ospina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3556040?pdf=render

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