An isolated retinal preparation to record light response from genetically labeled retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 47, 2011, Pages

  Schmid, Tiffany M ^a   Kofuji, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Fluorescent; Ganglion cell; Isolated; Mouse; Patch clamp; Retina; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952451246     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2367     Document Type: Article

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