The length of Henle fibers in the human retina and a model of ganglion receptive field density in the visual field

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2901-2911

  Drasdo, Neville ^a   Millican, C Leigh ^b   Katholi, Charles R ^c   Curcio, Christine A ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone photoreceptors; Fovea; Ganglion cells; Henle fibers; Human; Model; Receptive fields

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; RETINA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34548797015     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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