Silent synapses persist into adulthood in layer 2 / 3 pyramidal neurons of visual 1 cortex in dark - reared mice 2 3 4
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Silent synapses persist into adulthood in layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons of visual 1 cortex in dark-reared mice 2 3 4 Rie Funahashi *, Takuro Maruyama *, Yumiko Yoshimura and Yukio Komatsu 5 6 Department of Neuroscience, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya 7 University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan; Division of Developmental 8 Neurophysiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes for 9 Natural Sciences, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan. 10 11 Running Head: Dark rearing and silent synapses 12 13 Corresponding author: Dr. Yukio Komatsu, Department of Neuroscience, Research 14 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 15 464-8601, Japan. 16 Tel: +81-52-789-3877, Fax: +81-52-789-3894 17 E-mail: [email protected] 18 19 *R.F. and T.M. contributed equally to this work. 20 21 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (January 23, 2013). doi:10.1152/jn.00912.2012
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