The instructive role of binocular vision in the Xenopus tectum

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 97, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 493-503

  Udin, Susan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Binocular; Glutamate; Nitric oxide; NMDA; Nucleus isthmi; Synapse

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NEUROLOGY; NITRIC OXIDE;

AXON GROWTH; XENOPUS TECTUM;

BINOCULAR VISION;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL SYSTEM; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; XENOPUS;

EID: 40749114041     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-007-0188-7     Document Type: Article

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