Cone positive off-response in normal and dystrophic cats

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-21

  Ekesten, Björn ^a   Narfström, Kristina ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cats; Cones; D wave; ERG; Off response; Retinal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LUMINANCE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; WAVEFORM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0032310887     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001817228569     Document Type: Article

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