Motor Experience Reprograms Development of a Genetically-Altered Bilateral Corticospinal Motor Circuit.

Evidence suggests that motor experience plays a role in shaping development of the corticospinal system and voluntary motor control, which is a key motor function of the system. Here we used a mouse model with conditional forebrain deletion of the gene for EphA4 (Emx1-Cre:EphA4tm2Kldr), which regula...

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Main Authors: Najet Serradj, John H Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5038944?pdf=render