Blockade of pathological retinal ganglion cell hyperactivity improves optogenetically evoked light responses in rd1 mice

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a progressive retinal dystrophy that causes visual impairment and eventual blindness. Retinal prostheses are the best currently available vision-restoring treatment for RP, but only restore crude vision. One possible contributing factor to the poor quality of vision achi...

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Main Authors: John Martin Barrett, Patrick eDegenaar, Evelyne eSernagor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2015.00330/full