The ERG responses to light stimuli of melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells that are independent of rods and cones

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-286

  Fukuda, Yumi ^a   Tsujimura, Sei ichi ^b   Higuchi, Shigekazu ^c   Yasukouchi, Akira ^c   Morita, Takeshi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Electroretinogram; Melanopsin expressing retinal ganglion cells; Photoreception

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954142366     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.080     Document Type: Article

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