Competition driven by retinal waves promotes morphological and functional synaptic development of neurons in the superior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1441-1454

  Furman, Moran ^a   Xu, Hong Ping ^a   Crair, Michael C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological development; Nicotine; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Retinal waves; Superior colliculus; Synapse maturation; Visual map development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONOCULAR VISION; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR; RETINAL WAVES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE MATURATION; VISUAL MAP DEVELOPMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84884172922     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01066.2012     Document Type: Article

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