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T A Jones1, J A Kleim, W T Greenough
1Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA. tajones@u.washington.edu
Brain Research
|September 9, 1996
Abstract:
Unilateral lesions of the forelimb area of the sensorimotor cortex in adult rats resulted in time-dependent increases in the number of synapses per neuron and the volume and membrane surface area of dendritic processes per neuron within layer V of the contralateral motor cortex in comparison to sham-operated rats. Based on previous findings of a behavioral relationship with increased dendritic arborization, these changes may be related to lesion-induced compensatory changes in the use of the non-impaired (ipsilateral to the lesion) forelimb.