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Choi, SY, Morales, B, Lee, HK, and Kirkwood, A. (2002) Absence of Long-Term Depression in the Visual Cortex of GAD 65 Knockout mice. J. Neurosci. 22, (5271-5276).

Rozas, C, Frank, H, Heynen, A. Morales, B. Bear, M. F. and Kirkwood, A. (2001) Developmental inhibitory gate controls the relay of activity to the superficial layers of the visual cortex J. Neurosci. 21, 6791-6801.

Yu, H. Saura, C. Choi, S.E. Sun, L. Yang, X Handler, M. Kawarabayashi, T Younkin, L. Wilson, M. Younkin, S. Kandel, E.R. Kirkwood, A. Shen. J (2001). APP Processing, Notch Signalling and Synaptic Synaptic Plasticity in the Adult Brain of Presenilin-1 Conditional Knockout Mice. Neuron 31, 713-726.

Frankland, P. W., O’Brien, C. O. Obne, M., Kirkwood, A & Silva, A. (2001) a-CAMKIII-dependent plasticity in the cortex is required for permanent memory traces. Nature 410, 309-313

Kirkwood, A. Serotonergic control of developmental plasticity. (2000). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 97, 1.

Huang, J., Z, Kirkwood, A., Morales, B., Pizzorusso, T. Porciatti, V., Bear, M. F., Maffei, L. & Tonegawa, S. (1999). BDNF is a key regulator of the maturation of inhibition and critical period of mouse visual cortex. Cell 98:739-755.

Kirkwood, A, Rozas, C., Kirkwood, J., Perez, F. and Bear M. F. (1999). Modulation of Long-Term Synaptic Depression in visual cortex by acetylcholine and norepinephrine. J. Neurosci. 1999 19: 1599-1609.

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