A comparison of visual responses in the lateral geniculate nucleus of alert and anaesthetized macaque monkeys

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-99

  Alitto, Henry J ^a   Moore, Bartlett D ^a   Rathbun, Daniel L ^a   Usrey, W M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GENICULATE BODIES; MACACA MULATTA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 78650411319     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.190538     Document Type: Article

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