A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 37-44

  Zhang, Li I ^a   Tao, Huizhong W ^a   Holt, Christine E ^a,b   Harris, William A ^a,b   Poo, Mu Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FROG; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032480332     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25665     Document Type: Article

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