Recoding of sensory information across the retinothalamic synapse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 13567-13577

  Wang, Xin ^a   Hirsch, Judith A ^a   Sommer, Friedrich T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77958068720     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0910-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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