Synaptic inputs mediating bipolar cell responses in the tiger salamander retina

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4015-4023

  Maple, Bruce R ^a   Wu, Samuel M ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar cell axon terminal; Bipolar cell dendrites; Depolarizing bipolar cell (DBC); GABA; Glutamate; Hyperpolarizing bipolar cell (HBC)

Indexed keywords

CATION CHANNEL; CHLORIDE CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SALAMANDER; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RETINA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030551268     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00126-5     Document Type: Article

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