Lack of early pattern stimulation prevents normal development of the alpha (Y) retinal ganglion cell population in the cat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2414-2429

  Burnat, Kalina ^a,b   Van Der Gucht, Estelle ^b   Waleszczyk, Wioletta J ^a   Kossut, Malgorzata ^a   Arckens, Lutgarde ^b  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binocular deprivation; Motion sensitive pathway; Neurofilament protein; ON and OFF pathways; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84860894419     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23045     Document Type: Article

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