Arginine analogs modify signal detection by neurons in the visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 5528-5548

  Kara, Prakash ^a,b   Friedlander, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Information processing; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Signal detection; Signal to noise; Striate cortex; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MICROIONTOPHORESIS; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033169053     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-13-05528.1999     Document Type: Article

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