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SUBMITTER: Oberlaender M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3564553 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oberlaender Marcel M Ramirez Alejandro A Bruno Randy M RM
Neuron 20120501 4
The brain's capacity to rewire is thought to diminish with age. It is widely believed that development stabilizes the synapses from thalamus to cortex and that adult experience alters only synaptic connections between cortical neurons. Here we show that thalamocortical (TC) inputs themselves undergo massive plasticity in adults. We combined whole-cell recording from individual thalamocortical neurons in adult rats with a recently developed automatic tracing technique to reconstruct individual ax ...[more]