Transmission of blue (S) cone signals through the primate lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5947-5967

  Tailby, C ^a,b,c   Szmajda, B A ^a,b   Buzas P ^a,b   Lee, B B ^d,e   Martin, P R ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARVOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 57649222360     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.161893     Document Type: Article

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