The morphology and intrinsic excitability of developing mouse retinal ganglion cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Qu, Juan ^a,c   Myhr, Karen L ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL SHAPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 79960258590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021777     Document Type: Article

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