Retinal bipolar cells: Temporal filtering of signals from cone photoreceptors

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 765-774

  Burkhardt, Dwight A ^a   Fahey, Patrick K ^a   Sikora, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone photoreceptors; Horizontal cells; Light adaptation; Retinal bipolar cells; Temporal transfer functions; White noise

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

AMBYSTOMA; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URODELA; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 37549061769     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070630     Document Type: Article

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