Optimization of single-photon response transmission at the rod-to-rod bipolar synapse

Physiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-286

  Okawa, Haruhisa ^b   Sampath, Alapakkam P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTON; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PHOTONS; RECEPTORS, PRESYNAPTIC; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34548255835     PISSN: 15489213     EISSN: 15489221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00007.2007     Document Type: Review

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