Receptive Field Properties and Laminar Organization of Lateral Geniculate Nucleus in the Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3398-3418

  Van Hooser, Stephen D ^a   Heimel, J Alexander F ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA Y CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCIURIDAE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0242677071     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00474.2003     Document Type: Article

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