Retinal bipolar cells: Elementary building blocks of vision

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 507-519

  Euler, Thomas ^a   Haverkamp, Silke ^b   Schubert, Timm ^a   Baden, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRITE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; VISION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84904462141     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3783     Document Type: Review

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