Functional degradation of visual cortical cells in old cats

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 155-162

  Hua, Tianmiao ^a   Li, Xiangrui ^a   He, Lihua ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,b   Wang, Yongchang ^a,c   Leventhal, Audie G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction selectivity; Functional declines; Old cat; Orientation selectivity; Signal to noise ratio; Visual cortical cells

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 27744550623     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.11.012     Document Type: Article

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