Functional allocation of synaptic contacts in microcircuits from rods via rod bipolar to AII amacrine cells in the mouse retina

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3541-3555

  Tsukamoto, Yoshihiko ^a,b   Omi, Naoko ^a  

^a Studio Retina   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Neural connection; Noise reduction; Photon signal; Ribbon synapse; Scotopic vision

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; DENDRITE; GAP JUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEURAL CONNECTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PHOTON SIGNAL; RIBBON SYNAPSE; SCOTOPIC VISION;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NIGHT VISION; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84883005881     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23370     Document Type: Article

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