Thalamic relay of spontaneous retinal activity prior to vision

Neuron

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 863-874

  Mooney, Richard ^a,b   Penn, Anna A ^c   Gallego, Roberto ^a,d   Shatz, Carla J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030292907     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80218-4     Document Type: Article

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