Receptive field center size decreases and firing properties mature in ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells after eye opening in the mouse

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 895-904

  Koehler, Christopher L ^a   Akimov, Nikolay P ^a   Rentería, René C ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Multielectrode array; Retina; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE NOISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EYE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80051495088     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01046.2010     Document Type: Article

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