Spatial and temporal summation in the human dark-adapted retina

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Simultaneous Whole-cell Recordings from Photoreceptors and Second-order Neurons in an Amphibian Retinal Slice Preparation
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Simultaneous Whole-cell Recordings from Photoreceptors and Second-order Neurons in an Amphibian Retinal Slice Preparation

Published on: June 1, 2013

P Zuidema, H Verschuure, M A Bouman

    Journal of the Optical Society of America
    |December 1, 1981
    PubMed

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