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Title |
Flowers and weeds: cell-type specific pruning in the developing visual thalamus
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Published in |
BMC Biology, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1741-7007-12-3 |
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Authors |
Isabel Benjumeda, Manuel Molano-Mazón, Luis M Martinez |
Abstract |
In the first weeks of vertebrate postnatal life, neural networks in the visual thalamus undergo activity-dependent refinement thought to be important for the development of functional vision. This process involves pruning of synaptic connections between retinal ganglion cells and excitatory thalamic neurons that relay signals on to visual areas of the cortex. A recent report in Neural Development shows that this does not occur in inhibitory neurons, questioning our current understanding of the development of mature neural circuits. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 17 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 16 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 35% |
Researcher | 5 | 29% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 18% |
Other | 1 | 6% |
Professor | 1 | 6% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 1 | 6% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Neuroscience | 8 | 47% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 24% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 6% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 3 | 18% |