Adaptation to background light enables contrast coding at rod bipolar cell synapses

Neuron

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 388-401

  Ke, Jiang Bin ^a   Wang, Yanbin V ^b   Borghuis, Bart G ^b   Cembrowski, Mark S ^c   Riecke, Hermann ^d   Kath, William L ^d,e   Demb, Jonathan B ^b   Singer, Joshua H ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLUCOSAMINE 6-PHOSPHATE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; QUINOXALINES; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84892826457     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.10.054     Document Type: Article

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