The role of starburst amacrine cells in visual signal processing

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-81

  Taylor, W R ^a   Smith, R G ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Direction selectivity; Gabaergic inhibition; Retina; Visual system

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; FLUORESCENT DYE; NICOTINIC ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84863011010     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000393     Document Type: Article

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