Contrast gain control and cortical TrkB signaling shape visual acuity

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 642-648

  Heimel, J Alexander ^a   Saiepour, M Hadi ^a   Chakravarthy, Sridhara ^a   Hermans, Josephine M ^a   Levelt, Christiaan N ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGING; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77951667274     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2534     Document Type: Article

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