Diverse Central Projection Patterns of Retinal Ganglion Cells

Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2058-2072

  Martersteck, Emily M ^a   Hirokawa, Karla E ^b   Evarts, Mariah ^a   Bernard, Amy ^b   Duan, Xin ^a   Li, Yang ^b   Ng, Lydia ^b   Oh, Seung W ^b   Ouellette, Benjamin ^b   Royall, Joshua J ^b   Stoecklin, Michelle ^b   Wang, Quanxin ^b   Zeng, Hongkui ^b   Sanes, Joshua R ^a   Harris, Julie A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

axon projections; connectivity mapping; Cre driver; retinal ganglion cell types

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA IMAGE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE;

ANIMALS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 85013963254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.075     Document Type: Article

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