Vision and visual cortical maps in mice with a photoreceptor synaptopathy: Reduced but robust visual capabilities in the absence of synaptic ribbons

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1622-1631

  Goetze, Bianka ^a   Schmidt, Karl Friedrich ^a   Lehmann, Konrad ^a   Altrock, Wilko Detlev ^b   Gundelfinger, Eckart Dieter ^b   Löwel, Siegrid ^a  

^a Inst für Allgemeine Zoologie   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; SYNAPSES; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70749145248     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.019     Document Type: Article

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