Coordinated increase in inhibitory and excitatory synapses onto retinal ganglion cells during development

Neural Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Soto, Florentina ^a,b   Bleckert, Adam ^a   Lewis, Renate ^c   Kang, Yunhee ^d   Kerschensteiner, Daniel ^a,b   Craig, Ann Marie ^d   Wong, Rachel O L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROGENESIS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UP-REGULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80052027753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-31     Document Type: Article

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