Electrical coupling between mammalian cones

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 1900-1907

  DeVries, Steven H ^a   Qi, Xiaofeng ^b   Smith, Robert ^c   Makous, Walter ^b   Sterling, Peter ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAMMAL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037137431     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01261-7     Document Type: Article

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