Light-induced modulation of coupling between AII amacrine cells in the rabbit retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 565-576

  Bloomfield, Stewart A ^a,b   Xin, Daiyan ^a   Osborne, Tristan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; Cone bipolar cell; Coupling; Gap junctions; Retina

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031148414     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800012220     Document Type: Article

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