Different roles of axon guidance cues and patterned spontaneous activity in establishing receptive fields in the mouse superior colliculus

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Mingna ^a   Wang, Lupeng ^a,b   Cang, Jianhua ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction selectivity; Ephrins; Mouse visual system; On off; Orientation selectivity; Retinal wave; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN A1; EPHRIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; CYTOLOGY; DIRECTION SELECTIVITY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOUSE VISUAL SYSTEM; NERVE FIBER; ON-OFF; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINAL WAVE;

DIRECTION SELECTIVITY; EPHRINS; MOUSE VISUAL SYSTEM; ON-OFF; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; RETINAL WAVE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CUES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84897058092     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00023     Document Type: Article

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