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NMDA receptor-dependent ocular dominance plasticity in adult visual cortex - PubMed

  • ️Wed Jan 01 2003

NMDA receptor-dependent ocular dominance plasticity in adult visual cortex

Nathaniel B Sawtell et al. Neuron. 2003.

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  • Neuron. 2003 Aug 14;39(4)727

Abstract

The binocular region of mouse visual cortex is strongly dominated by inputs from the contralateral eye. Here we show in adult mice that depriving the dominant contralateral eye of vision leads to a persistent, NMDA receptor-dependent enhancement of the weak ipsilateral-eye inputs. These data provide in vivo evidence for metaplasticity as a mechanism for binocular competition and demonstrate that an ocular dominance shift can occur solely by the mechanisms of response enhancement. They also show that adult mouse visual cortex has a far greater potential for experience-dependent plasticity than previously appreciated. These insights may force a revision in how data on ocular dominance plasticity in mutant mice have been interpreted.

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