Subretinal electrical stimulation of the rabbit retina with acutely implanted electrode arrays

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 587-596

  Gekeler, Florian ^a   Kobuch, Karin ^b   Schwahn, Hartmut Normann ^a   Stett, Alfred ^c   Shinoda, Kei ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; GENERATOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMPLANT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA INJURY; SURGICAL APPROACH; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 4344581433     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0862-6     Document Type: Article

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