Necessity for afferent activity to maintain eye-specific segregation in ferret lateral genicutate nucteus

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5462, 2000, Pages 2479-2482

  Chapman, Barbara ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FERRET; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; AXONS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FERRETS; GENICULATE BODIES; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO;

EID: 0034737488     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5462.2479     Document Type: Article

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23. Supported by NIH grant EY-11369. E. Anderson, V. Chan, T. Hallam, and S. Shook collected pilot data. C. Wefers gave expert advice on retinal dissections and histology. A. Haines and S. Shah performed LGN measurements. L. Chalupa and L. Stone provided helpful comments on this manuscript.