Functional architecture of primate cone and rod axons

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2539-2549

  Hsu, Andrew ^a   Tsukamoto, Yoshihiko ^b   Smith, Robert G ^a   Sterling, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compartmental model; Photoreceptor axon; Retina; Ribbon synapse; Transmitter release

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHLORIDE CONDUCTANCE; EXOCYTOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONES (RETINA); MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROBIOLOGY; RETINA; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 0031927272     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00370-2     Document Type: Article

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