Dynamic tuning of electrical and chemical synaptic transmission in a network of motion coding retinal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 14927-14938

  Trenholm, Stuart ^a   McLaughlin, Amanda J ^a   Schwab, David J ^b   Awatramani, Gautam B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; NEUROBIOTIN; PICROTOXIN; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BIOTIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84883720496     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0808-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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