Submissions tagged with plasticity
(4 documents)
Neuronal plasticity: cell-based strategy for target identification and validation
While growing neurites are relatively plastic during development, their plasticity levels drop rapidly as neurons mature and become integrated into neuronal networks. As a consequence, the central …
Received 13 January 2009 02:16 UTC; Posted 13 January 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology
Dynamic reorganization of the middle fusiform gyrus: long-term bird expertise predicts decreased face selectivity
What is the functional relationship between face-selective and expertise-predicated object-selective regions in the human middle fusiform gyrus? In two separate fMRI experiments, superior behaviora…
Received 04 November 2008 18:26 UTC; Posted 05 November 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Courtship plasticity reveals the evolution of dialects in allopatric fish populations
Traditionally, reproductive isolation between disjoint populations has been thought to emerge as a result of the accumulation of different mutations, genetic drift, or through the effects of natura…
Received 05 August 2008 08:02 UTC; Posted 07 August 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Metastasis as a faulty recapitulation of ontogeny
RAF oncogenes are involved in a variety of phenotypic switch phenomena. If for example oncogenic RAF is expressed together with Myc in B lineage cells, a lineage switch to macrophages occurs at low…
Received 23 August 2007 09:49 UTC; Posted 23 August 2007
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics
