Müller cells separate between wavelengths to improve day vision with minimal effect upon night vision

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Labin, Amichai M ^a   Safuri, Shadi K ^a   Ribak, Erez N ^a   Perlman, Ido ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER;

CYTOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTION; VISION; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOLATED RETINA; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; REFRACTION INDEX; RETINA; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WHITE LIGHT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT; MACROGLIA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; MALE; NIGHT VISION; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84903975794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5319     Document Type: Article

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