Functional properties of synaptic transmission in primary sense organs.

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Published in J Neurosci on October 14, 2009

Authors

Joshua H Singer1, Elisabeth Glowatzki, Tobias Moser, Ben W Strowbridge, Vikas Bhandawat, Alapakkam P Sampath

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.

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