Responses of neurones of the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus to retinel illumination under photopic and scotopic conditions

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 523, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 211-222

  Aggelopoulos, Nicholas C ^a,c   Meissl, Hilmar ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; ILLUMINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL CELL; FIRING RATE; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RETINA; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM;

EID: 0034652733     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.t01-1-00211.x     Document Type: Article

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