Metabotropic glutamate receptors switch visual response mode of lateral geniculate nucleus cells from burst to tonic

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1800-1816

  Godwin, Dwayne W ^a,b   Vaughan, J William ^a,b   Sherman, S Murray ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 CARBOXYPHENYLGLYCINE; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLOLEUCINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PHENYLGLYCINE; QUISQUALIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IONTOPHORESIS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SPIKE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029786069     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.3.1800     Document Type: Article

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