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Jul 2026
Neuropil aggrecan, not perineuronal nets, closes the critical period for visual plasticity
These findings rectify long-standing models that misattribute closure of the critical period to PNNs and identify that aggrecan expressed by excitatory neurons resident in the surrounding neuropil limits visual plasticity.
Emily C. Crouse, Thomas C. Brown, Xiao-Kuang Ma et al.
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