Two different types of Y cells in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1852-1864

  Yeh, Chun I ^a,b   Stoelzel, Carl R ^a   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; Y CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0141788521     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00417.2003     Document Type: Article

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