Direction-specific disruption of subcortical visual behavior and receptive fields in mice lacking the β2 subunit of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 12909-12918

  Wang, Lupeng ^a   Rangarajan, Krsna V ^a   Lawhn Heath, Courtney A ^a   Sarnaik, Rashmi ^a   Wang, Bor Shuen ^a   Liu, Xiaorong ^a   Cang, Jianhua ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; CHRNB2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NASOTEMPORAL AXIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WATER TASK; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE MODEL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GENETICS; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOUSE MUTANT; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY RECEPTOR; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70350156740     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2128-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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