Vision in mice with neuronal redundancy due to inhibition of developmental cell death

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 721-726

  Porciatti, Vittorio ^a   Pizzorusso, Tommaso ^b   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2 transgenic mouse; Patterned visual stimuli; Vision; Visual cortex; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DEATH; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033165881     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899164113     Document Type: Article

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