Developmental time course of social touch, parvalbumin interneurons, perineuronal nets and Mef2c expression reveals a sensitive period of somatosensory cortex development in prairie voles

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  2025

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  bioRxiv

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  2025-07-26

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  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1101/2025.07.25.666627PMID 40777479PMCID PMC12330645
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