A method for common undercutting of interactive regions in rat cerebral cortex.
A method is described by which several cortical areas can be isolated from subcortical afferent and corticofugal efferent connections, but the operation leaves associative and commissural connections with each other and with non-isolated areas intact. The common isolation of interactive cortical regions offers new possibilities to study morphologically, biochemically and electrophysiologically the complex process of synaptic reorganization and cortical functions in the absence of subcortical afferent and efferent connections.
D000818:Animals; D002541:Cerebral Decortication / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques