Spontaneous activity of morphologically identified ganglion cells in the developing ferret retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 7343-7350

  Liets, Lauren C ^a   Olshausen, Bruno A ^a,b   Wang, Guo Yong ^a   Chalupa, Leo M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual patch clamp; Ganglion cells; Retina; Retinal development; Spontaneous activity; Synchronous activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FERRET; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FERRETS; KINETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0041737607     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-19-07343.2003     Document Type: Article

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