Electrophysiological characterization of GFP-expressing cell populations in the intact retina

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 57, 2011, Pages

  Pottek, Mark ^a   Knop, Gabriel C ^a   Weiler, Reto ^a   Dedek, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Issue 57; Neuroscience; Patch clamp recording; Retina; Transgenic mouse line; Two photon microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455225420     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3457     Document Type: Article

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