Pretecto-tectal interactions: Effects of lesioning and stimulating the pretectum on field potentials in the optic tectum of salamanders in vitro

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 137-140

  Luksch, Harald ^a,b   Roth, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibian visual system; Evoked potentials; In vitro study; Lesion experiments; Pretectum; Tectum opticum

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030592570     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13089-5     Document Type: Article

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