Visual Cortex - Growth & development
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Rapid, long-term labeling of cells in the developing and adult rodent visual cortex using double-stranded adeno-associated viral vectors.

30 Aug 2009 Chronic in vivo imaging studies of the brain require a labeling method that is fast, long-lasting, efficient, nontoxic, and cell-type specific. Over the last decade, adeno-associated virus (AAV) has been used to stably express fluorescent proteins ... Read more...

Sparsification of neuronal activity in the visual cortex at eye-opening.

12 Aug 2009 Eye-opening represents a turning point in the function of the visual cortex. Before eye-opening, the visual cortex is largely devoid of sensory inputs and neuronal activities are generated intrinsically. After eye-opening, the cortex starts to ... Read more...

Watching moving images specifically promotes development of medial area of secondary visual cortex in rat.

30 Jul 2009 It is generally accepted that the cortex can be divided into numerous regions depending on the type of information each processes, and that specific input is effective in improving the development of related regions. In visual cortex, many subareas ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Visual Cortex - Growth & development'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Neuroscience. Erasing fear memories. 2 Sep 2009
• Rapid, long-term labeling of cells in the developing and adult rodent visual cortex using double-stranded adeno-associated viral vectors. 30 Aug 2009
• Sparsification of neuronal activity in the visual cortex at eye-opening. 12 Aug 2009
• Watching moving images specifically promotes development of medial area of secondary visual cortex in rat. 30 Jul 2009
• Continuously changed genes during postnatal periods in rat visual cortex. 6 Jul 2009
• Equalization of ocular dominance columns induced by an activity-dependent learning rule and the maturation of inhibition. 18 May 2009
• Pinwheel stabilization by ocular dominance segregation. 16 May 2009
• Ube3a is required for experience-dependent maturation of the neocortex. 8 May 2009
• A postnatal critical period for orientation plasticity in the cat visual cortex. 27 Apr 2009
• Natural scene statistics and the structure of orientation maps in the visual cortex. 3 Apr 2009
• Facilitation of low-frequency stimulation-induced long-term potentiation by endogenous noradrenaline and serotonin in developing rat visual cortex. 11 Mar 2009
• Developmental and neurochemical features of cholinergic neurons in the murine cerebral cortex. 7 Mar 2009
• Thick visual cortex in the early blind. 16 Feb 2009
• The foundations of development and deprivation in the visual system. 14 Feb 2009
• Neural mechanisms of recovery following early visual deprivation. 10 Feb 2009
• When do infants differentiate profile face from frontal face? A near-infrared spectroscopic study. 30 Jan 2009
• Visual evoked potentials in infants of diabetic mothers: relations to clinical and metabolic status during pregnancy and delivery. 29 Jan 2009
• Experience-driven axon retraction in the pharmacologically inactivated visual cortex does not require synaptic transmission. 12 Jan 2009
• Abnormal diffusion of cerebral white matter in early blindness. 30 Dec 2008
• Neural correlates of orthographic and phonological consistency effects in children. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Visual Cortex'

Definition: Area of the occipital lobe concerned with vision.

Descriptor UI: D014793

Alternative terms: Visual Cortex; Cortex, Visual; Striate Cortex; Cortex, Striate;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; transplantation; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.571.735;

History Note: 70(68)

Technical Notes: do not confuse STRIATE CORTEX with CORPUS STRIATUM (basal ganglia)