Response properties of a unique subtype of wide-field amacrine cell in the rabbit retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 459-469

  Bloomfield, Stewart A ^a   Völgyi, Béla ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active conduction; Amacrine cell; Dendritic spikes; Receptive field; Retina

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; SODIUM; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; STEREOTYPY; SYNAPSE;

AMACRINE CELLS; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 34848924977     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070071     Document Type: Article

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