Selective Ablation of a Class of Amacrine Cells Alters Spatial Processing in the Retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1459-1467

  Sinclair, John R ^a   Jacobs, Adam L ^a   Nirenberg, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; GABA; Mouse retina; Neuropeptide Y; Retinal ganglion cell; Spatial processing; Spatial tuning; Surround inhibition; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION;

EID: 1242269214     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3959-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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