Receptive-field properties of adult cat's retinal ganglion cells with regenerated axons

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 383-390

  Miyoshi, Tomomitsu ^a   Watanabe, Masami ^b   Sawai, Hajime ^a,d   Rasminsky, Michael ^c   Sugioka, Miho ^a   Ohde, Hisao ^a,e   Fukuda, Yutaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Cat; Receptive field; Retinal ganglion cells; Single unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL TYPE; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION;

EID: 0033001939     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050635     Document Type: Article

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