Optical recordings of the effects of cholinergic ligands on neurons in the ganglion cell layer of mammalian retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 5060-5072

  Baldridge, William H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; amacrine cell; calcium imaging; intracellular calcium; receptors; retinal ganglion cell

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ACETYLCHOLINE; BUNGAROTOXIN; CALCIUM ION; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; MUSCARINE; MUSCARINIC M1 RECEPTOR; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

EID: 0029738468     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-16-05060.1996     Document Type: Article

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