Unmasking of latent synaptic connections in the cortex of the rat, elicited by facial nerve transection

Peripheral nerve injury elicits plastic changes in the cortex, resulting in reorganization of the somatotopic representation maps. These processes begin within minutes after nerve injury, and last for weeks. Although the mechanisms leading to these plastic changes are not known in a detail, a number...

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Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerzők: Farkas Tamás
Toldi József
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: 2001
Sorozat:Acta biologica Szegediensis 45 No. 1-4
Kulcsszavak:Természettudomány, Biológia
Online Access:http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/22444
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