Responses of Retinal Ganglion Cells to Extracellular Electrical Stimulation, from Single Cell to Population: Model-Based Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Tsai, David ^a,b,c   Chen, Spencer ^a   Protti, Dario A ^d   Morley, John W ^e   Suaning, Gregg J ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c University of Sydney ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALLITHRIX; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICROELECTRODES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84871678796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053357     Document Type: Article

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