Quantal mEPSCs and residual glutamate: How horizontal cell responses are shaped at the photoreceptor ribbon synapse

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2575-2586

  Cadetti, Lucia ^a,b   Bartoletti, Theodore M ^a,c   Thoreson, Wallace B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Light response; Retinal photoreceptors; Salamander; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA ROD; SALAMANDER; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGHT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINAL HORIZONTAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 44649111862     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06226.x     Document Type: Article

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