Synaptic reorganization in the adult rat's ventral cochlear nucleus following its total sensory deafferentation.

Ablation of a cochlea causes total sensory deafferentation of the cochlear nucleus in the brainstem, providing a model to investigate nervous degeneration and formation of new synaptic contacts in the adult brain. In a quantitative electron microscopical study on the plasticity of the central audito...

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Main Authors: Heika Hildebrandt, Nadine A Hoffmann, Robert-Benjamin Illing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3161744?pdf=render