Complementary roles of two excitatory pathways in retinal directional selectivity

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1119-1127

  Grzywacz, Norberto M ^a   Merwine, David K ^a   Amthor, Franklin R ^b  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Directional selectivity; GABA; Glutamate; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 2 AMINO 7 PHOSPHONOHEPTANOIC ACID; 2-AMINO-7-PHOSPHONOHEPTANOIC ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CURARE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; CURARE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MOTION PERCEPTION; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032211970     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898156109     Document Type: Article

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