Rhythmic ganglion cell activity in bleached and blind adult mouse retinas.

In retinitis pigmentosa--a degenerative disease which often leads to incurable blindness--the loss of photoreceptors deprives the retina from a continuous excitatory input, the so-called dark current. In rodent models of this disease this deprivation leads to oscillatory electrical activity in the r...

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Main Authors: Jacob Menzler, Lakshmi Channappa, Guenther Zeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4143350?pdf=render