Mice lacking specific nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits exhibit dramatically altered spontaneous activity patterns and reveal a limited role for retinal waves in forming ON and OFF circuits in the inner retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 7672-7681

  Bansal, A ^a   Singer, J H ^a   Hwang, B J ^a   Xu, W ^a   Beaudet, A ^a   Feller, M B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; Cholinergic amacrine cells; Nicotinic receptor subunits; Retinal waves; Spontaneous activity; Visual system development

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENDRITE; FLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0034667547     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-20-07672.2000     Document Type: Article

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