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Science 8 October 1976:
Vol. 194. no. 4261, pp. 206 - 209
DOI: 10.1126/science.959850
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Science, Vol 194, Issue 4261, 206-209
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Depletion of brain catecholamines: failure of ocular dominance shift after monocular occlusion in kittens

T Kasamatsu and JD Pettigrew

Monocularly deprived kittens were compared with littermates that had had their eyelids sutured for the same time but that had, in addition, been treated with 6-hydroxydopamine to deplete their forebrains of catecholamines. The visual cortices of all the catecholamine-depleted kittens showed high proportions of binocular neurons, in contrast to the control group, most of whose visual cortical neurons were driven exclusively by the nondeprived eye. Catecholamines may play an important role in the maintenance of cortical plasticity during the critical period.


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