Different types of synapses with different spectral types of cones underlie color opponency in a bipolar cell of the turtle retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 801-809

  Haverkamp, Silke ^a   Möckel, Wolfgang ^b   Ammermüller, Josef ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal junction; Bipolar cells; Chromaticity horizontal cells; Color coding; Ribbon synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPSE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); LOGISTIC MODELS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SYNAPSES; TURTLES;

EID: 0345534626     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899164186     Document Type: Article

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