A synaptic mechanism for retinal adaptation to luminance and contrast

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 11003-11015

  Jarsky, Tim ^a   Cembrowski, Mark ^c   Logan, Stephen M ^a   Kath, William L ^b,c   Riecke, Hermann ^c   Demb, Jonathan B ^d,e   Singer, Joshua H ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPHYSICS; CALCIUM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; LIGHTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79960959340     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2631-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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