Distinct synaptic mechanisms create parallel S-ON and S-OFF color opponent pathways in the primate retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 139-151

  Dacey, Dennis M ^a   Crook, Joanna D ^a   Packer, Orin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar cell; Ganglion cell; Horizontal cell; Outer plexiform layer; Primate S Cone

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CALLITRICHINAE; COLOR VISION; DENDRITIC SPINE; HYPOTHESIS; MACACA; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPSE; COLOR; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; RETINA; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRIMATES; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84899412199     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523813000230     Document Type: Review

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