Comparison of visual function in pigmented and albino rats by electroretinography and visual evoked potentials

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1559-1573

  Heiduschka, Peter ^a   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albino; Electroretinography; Rat; Visual evoked potential

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; LIGHT; LONG EVANS RAT; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VISION; WISTAR ALBINO GLAXO RAT;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 54049110966     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0895-3     Document Type: Article

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