Response linearity and kinetics of the cat retina: The bipolar cell component of the dark-adapted electroretinogram

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 837-850

  Robson, J G ^a   Frishman, L J ^b  

^a Physiological Laberatory ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

b wave; Bipolar cell; Electroretinogram; G protein; PII

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; 2-AMINO-4-PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMINOBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CYTOLOGY; DARK ADAPTATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INJECTION; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RETINA; RETINA ROD; VITREOUS BODY;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ANIMAL; CATS; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INJECTIONS; KINETICS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0029360356     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800009408     Document Type: Article

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