Direct rod input to cone BCs and direct cone input to rod BCs challenge the traditional view of mammalian BC circuitry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 395-400

  Pang, Ji Jie ^a   Gao, Fan ^a   Lem, Janis ^b   Bramblett, Debra E ^c   Paul, David L ^d   Wu, Samuel M ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Paul L Foster School of Medicine   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon terminal stratification; Connexin36; Depolarizing bipolar cell; Light evoked cation and chloride currents; Wild type and mutant mice

Indexed keywords

CATION; CONNEXIN 36; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BETA4; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL SHAPE; CONNEXINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSDUCIN; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 76249120897     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907178107     Document Type: Article

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