Transfer of graded potentials at the photoreceptor-interneuron synapse

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 117-148

  Juusola, Mikko ^a   Uusitalo, R O ^a   Weckstrom M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; HISTAMINE; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL; DARK ADAPTATION; DIPTERA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEUROTRANSMITTERS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0028918078     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.105.1.117     Document Type: Article

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