Temporal response properties of retinal ganglion cells in rd1 mice evoked by amplitude-modulated electrical pulse trains

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6762-6769

  Ryu, Sang Baek ^a   Ye, Jang Hee ^b   Goo, Yong Sook ^b   Kim, Chi Hyun ^a   Kim, Kyung Hwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HISTOGRAM; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 79951523241     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5577     Document Type: Article

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