Local signaling from a retinal prosthetic in a rodent retinitis pigmentosa model in vivo

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Fransen, James W ^a   Pangeni, Gobinda ^a   Pardue, MacHelle T ^b,c   McCall, Maureen A ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial vision; photovoltaic; prosthesis; retina; retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMPUTER VISION; DESIGN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED LASERS; NEURAL PROSTHESES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ACTIVATION THRESHOLDS; EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING; PHOTOVOLTAIC; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

PROSTHETICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINAL IMPLANT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; LASERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84903787826     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/4/046012     Document Type: Article

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