Ganglion cell adaptability: Does the coupling of horizontal cells play a role?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Dedek, Karin ^a   Pandarinath, Chethan ^b   Alam, Nazia M ^c   Wellershaus, Kerstin ^d   Schubert, Timm ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^d   Prusky, Glen T ^c   Weiler, Reto ^a   Nirenberg, Sheila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; GJA10 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MOUSE; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; VISUAL FIELD;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONNEXINS; DOPAMINE; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL HORIZONTAL CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 44349143786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001714     Document Type: Article

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