Learned arbitrary responses to light in mice without rods or cones

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 525-527

  Mrosovsky, N ^a   Salmon, Peggy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; OPSIN;

LIGHT; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; SHOCK;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLINDNESS; CONES (RETINA); CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RODS (RETINA); TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036862762     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0369-0     Document Type: Article

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