A dedicated circuit links direction-selective retinal ganglion cells to the primary visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 507, Issue 7492, 2014, Pages 358-361

  Cruz Martín, Alberto ^a,b   El Danaf, Rana N ^a,b   Osakada, Fumitaka ^c   Sriram, Balaji ^b   Dhande, Onkar S ^a,b   Nguyen, Phong L ^a,b   Callaway, Edward M ^c   Ghosh, Anirvan ^d   Huberman, Andrew D ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEUROBIOLOGY SECTION   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d Neuroscience   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

BRAIN; CALCIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DENDRITE; DIRECTION SELECTIVE GANGLION CELL; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTOSOME; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; GENICULATE BODIES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORIENTATION; RABIES VIRUS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84897028210     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12989     Document Type: Article

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