Estimating the contributions of NMDA and non-NMDA currents to EPSPs in retinal ganglion cells

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 999-1014

  Velte, T J ^a   Yu, W ^a   Miller, R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Kainate; Modeling; NBQX; Retina; Salamander; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031279612     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800011731     Document Type: Article

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