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Absence of Whisker-related pattern formation in mice with NMDA receptors lacking coincidence detection properties and calcium signaling.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Mar 2003
Rudhard York, Kneussel Matthias, Nassar Mohammed A, Rast Georg F, Annala Alexander J, Chen Philip E, Tigaret Cezar M, Dean Isabel, Roes Juergen, Gibb Alasdair J, Hunt Stephen P, Schoepfer Ralf
Abstract excerpt
Precise refinement of synaptic connectivity is the result of activity-dependent mechanisms in which coincidence-dependent calcium signaling by NMDA receptors (NMDARs) under control of the voltage-dependent Mg2+ block might play a special role. In the developing rodent trigeminal system, the pattern of synaptic connections between whisker-specific inputs and their target cells in the brainstem is refined to form...
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