Electrical multisite stimulation of the isolated chicken retina

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1785-1795

  Stett, Alfred ^a,b   Barth, Wolfgang ^a,b   Weiss, Stefan ^a   Haemmerle, Hugo ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional electrical stimulation; Microelectrode array; Retina preparation; Subretinal stimulation; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FORM PERCEPTION; GANGLIA; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034674497     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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