Cholinergic effects on cat retina in vitro: Changes in rod- and cone-driven b-wave and optic nerve response

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 797-816

  Jurklies, Bernhard ^b   Kaelin Lang, Alain ^b   Niemeyer, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cat retina; Cholinergic antagonists; Cones; ERG; Muscarinic; Nicotinic; Optic nerve response; Rods

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MECAMYLAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CAT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD;

EID: 0029913426     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00172-7     Document Type: Article

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