Interaction between rod and cone signals in responses of lateral geniculate neurons in dichromatic marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 931-943

  Weiss, Stefan ^a,b   Kremers, Jan ^a   Maurer, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lateral geniculate nucleus; Marmoset; Rod cone interaction; Spectral

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODY; MALE; MARMOSET; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODS (RETINA); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032170555     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898155177     Document Type: Article

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