Retinal waves coordinate patterned activity throughout the developing visual system

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7419, 2012, Pages 219-225

  Ackman, James B ^a   Burbridge, Timothy J ^a   Crair, Michael C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIBATIDINE;

BRAIN; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HEMISPHERE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CALCIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PYRIDINES; RETINA; RETINAL NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84867284693     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11529     Document Type: Article

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