Do weak adapting backgrounds uncover multiple components in the electroretinogram of the horseshoe crab?

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 39, Issue , 2003, Pages 105-110

  Lucas, J C ^a   Weiner, W W ^a   Ahmed, J ^a  

^a ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; VISION;

PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRAB; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HORSESHOE CRABS; LIGHT; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037260832     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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