Intrinsic ON responses of the retinal OFF pathway are suppressed by the ON pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 46, 2006, Pages 11857-11869

  Rentería, René C ^a   Tian, Ning ^c   Cang, Jianhua ^b   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^d   Stryker, Michael P ^b   Copenhagen, David R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Long latency ON response; mGluR6 knock out mouse; Multielectrode array; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 2 (2 CARBOXYCYCLOPROPYL) 3 (XANTHEN 9 YL)PROPIONIC ACID; 2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 CARBOXY 2 METHYLPHENYLGLYCINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 6; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33751099822     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1718-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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