Calcium imaging reveals a network of intrinsically light-sensitive inner-retinal neurons

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1290-1298

  Sekaran, Sumathi ^a   Foster, Russell G ^a   Lucas, Robert J ^a   Hankins, Mark W ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042991430     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00510-4     Document Type: Article

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