Retinal waves in mice lacking the β2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13638-13643

  Sun, Chao ^a   Warland, David K ^a   Ballesteros, Jose M ^a   Van Der List, Deborah ^a   Chalupa, Leo M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gap junction; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Multielectrode array; Retinal ganglion cells; Retinogeniculate segregation

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR BETA2 SUBUNIT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RETINA;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 51649095090     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807178105     Document Type: Article

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