Rearing Complexity Affects Branching of Dendrites in the Visual Cortex of the Rat
- 30 June 1972
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 176 (4042), 1445-1447
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.176.4042.1445
Abstract
Higher-order dendritic branching is considerably greater in Golgistained neurons from the occipital cortex of rats reared in groups in a complex environment than in similar neurons of littermates reared individually in laboratory cages have intermediate amounts of branching, while lower-order branching did not appear to be affected by any rearing environment.Keywords
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