Asymmetric temporal properties in the receptive field of retinal transient amacrine cells

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 445-458

  Djupsund, Kaj ^a,b   Furukawa, Tetsuo ^c   Yasui, Syozo ^c   Yamada, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carp; Conduction velocity; Direction selectivity; Latency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA AMACRINE CELL;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CARPS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0141919840     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200308828     Document Type: Article

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