Approach sensitivity in the retina processed by a multifunctional neural circuit

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1308-1316

  Münch, Thomas A ^a,c   Da Silveira, Rava Azeredo ^b   Siegert, Sandra ^a   Viney, Tim James ^a   Awatramani, Gautam B ^a,d   Roska, Botond ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNEXINS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PIPERAZINES; QUINOXALINES; RETINA; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70349557832     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2389     Document Type: Article

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