Light increases the gap junctional coupling of retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4145-4163

  Hu, Edward H ^a   Pan, Feng ^a   Völgyi, Béla ^a   Bloomfield, Stewart A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; CYCLIC AMP; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; NEUROBIOTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; GAP JUNCTION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MESOPIC VISION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CYCLIC AMP; DOPAMINE; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78049474871     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.193268     Document Type: Article

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