Axon pruning: an essential step underlying the developmental plasticity of neuronal connections

By Lawrence K Low, Hwai-Jong Cheng. 2006

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology

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In Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

1. David J. Lewkowicz
2. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

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1. David J. Lewkowicz
2. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Citations in the corpus

• Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “…has been that narrowing is due to the pruning of “exuberant” neural connections which are typically found in the young developing nervous system and which represent the initial growth of relatively diffuse and global neural networks (Cowan, Fawcett, O’Leary, & Stanfield, 1984; Low & Cheng, 2006).”
• A Structural MRI Study of Human Brain Development from Birth to 2 Years (2008, background): “Increased volume attributable to myelination may be partially offset by axon elimination (LaMantia and Rakic, 1990; Low and Cheng, 2006).”
• Imaging brain development: The adolescent brain (2012, background): “Which synapses survive and which are selectively eliminated is partly experience-dependent (Changeux and Danchin, 1976; Low and Cheng, 2006).”