Whole-cell recording of light-evoked photoreceptor responses in a slice preparation of the cuttlefish retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 359-370

  Chrachri, Abdesslam ^a,b   Nelson, Lisa ^a,b   Williamson, Roddy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cephalopod; Cyclic GMP; InsP3; Invertebrate; Patch clamp; Phototransduction

Indexed keywords

1 [[6 (3 METHOXYESTRA 1,3,5(10) TRIEN 17BETA YL)AMINO]HEXYL] 1H PYRROLE 2,5 DIONE; COBALT; CYCLIC GMP; DIACYLGLYCEROL; HEPARIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; PHORBOL DIBUTYRATE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; TETRODOTOXIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CURRENT;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CYCLIC GMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESTRENES; HEPARIN; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLLUSCA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHORBOL 12,13-DIBUTYRATE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PYRROLIDINONES; REACTION TIME; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 24944479442     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805223106     Document Type: Article

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