Species-specific wiring for direction selectivity in the mammalian retina

Nature

Volumn 535, Issue 7610, 2016, Pages 105-110

  Ding, Huayu ^a   Smith, Robert G ^b   Poleg Polsky, Alon ^a   Diamond, Jeffrey S ^a   Briggman, Kevin L ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; EYE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAGOMORPH; RODENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONNECTOME; DENDRITE; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EXCITATION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

CALCIUM;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84978389070     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature18609     Document Type: Article

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