Maintaining the cornea and the general physiological environment in visual neurophysiology experiments

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-166

  Metha, Andrew B ^a   Crane, Alison M ^b   Rylander III, H Grady ^c   Thomsen, Sharon L ^b   Albrecht, Duane G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact lenses; Cornea; Primate and cat visual system; Single neuron electrophysiology; Visual neurophysiology; Visual neuroscience

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA PERMEABILITY; DEHYDRATION; EXPERIMENTATION; EYELID REFLEX; GAS PERMEABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MONKEY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; DEHYDRATION; GASES; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPTOMETRY; PERMEABILITY; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0035974973     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00409-5     Document Type: Article

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