Experimental protocols alter phototransduction: The implications for retinal processing at visual threshold

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3670-3682

  Azevedo, Anthony W ^a   Rieke, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA ROD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MAGNESIUM; MICE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 79952380612     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4750-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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