Masked excitatory crosstalk between the ON and OFF visual pathways in the mammalian retina

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4473-4489

  Farajian, Reza ^a   Pan, Feng ^a,b   Akopian, Abram ^a   Völgyi, Béla ^b   Bloomfield, Stewart A ^a,b  

^a Department of Physiology and Neuroscience ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MAMMAL; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; ON OFF PHENOMENON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RABBITS; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; RECEPTORS, GABA; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80052802566     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.213371     Document Type: Article

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