Confronting complexity: Strategies for understanding the microcircuitry of the retina

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue , 2000, Pages 249-284

  Masland, Richard H ^a   Raviola, Elio ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Electrophysiology; Molecular neurobiology; Transgenes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA CONE; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA ROD; REVIEW; SPIKE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0034039383     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.23.1.249     Document Type: Review

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