Receptive field mosaics of retinal ganglion cells are established without visual experience

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1856-1864

  Anishchenko, Anastacia ^a,b   Greschner, Martin ^b   Elstrott, Justin ^a,c   Sher, Alexander ^d   Litke, Alan M ^d   Feller, Marla B ^a,c   Chichilnisky, E J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77951235934     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00896.2009     Document Type: Article

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