Synapses in the fly motion-vision pathway: Evidence for a broad range of signal amplitudes and dynamics

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 2032-2041

  Beckers, Ulrich ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a   Kurtz, Rafael ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33947132126     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01116.2006     Document Type: Article

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