A late ON response remains in visual response of the mGluR6-deficient mouse

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 137-140

  Sugihara, Hiroki ^a   Inoue, Tetsu ^a   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^b   Fukuda, Yutaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Metabotropic glutamate receptor; ON response; Retinal bipolar cell; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DARK ADAPTATION; GENE TARGETING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0031017039     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00656-3     Document Type: Article

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