A novel signaling pathway from rod photoreceptors to ganglion cells in mammalian retina

Neuron

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 481-493

  Soucy, Ed ^a   Wang, Yanshu ^b   Nirenberg, Sheila ^a,c   Nathans, Jeremy ^b   Meister, Markus ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032168084     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80560-7     Document Type: Article

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