Parallel processing in the mammalian retina

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 747-757

  Wässle, Heinz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

BRAIN; CELL INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL PROCESSING; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 5044222028     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1497     Document Type: Review

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