Cofilin1 controls transcolumnar plasticity in dendritic spines in adult barrel cortex.

During sensory deprivation, the barrel cortex undergoes expansion of a functional column representing spared inputs (spared column), into the neighboring deprived columns (representing deprived inputs) which are in turn shrunk. As a result, the neurons in a deprived column simultaneously increase an...

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Main Authors: Tadashi Tsubota, Reiko Okubo-Suzuki, Yohei Ohashi, Keita Tamura, Koshin Ogata, Masae Yaguchi, Makoto Matsuyama, Kaoru Inokuchi, Yasushi Miyashita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002070