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New approaches to ophthalmic electrodiagnosis by retinal oscillatory potential, drug-induced responses from retinal pigment epithelium and cone potential

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New clinical methods are proposed to assess (1) neuronal activities of the retinal inner layers including amacrine cells by means of the oscillatory potential, (2) photopic function through the rapid decay in the off-response and (3) activities of the retinal pigment epithelium through susceptibility of the standing potential of the eye to osmotic stress and to Diamox. These new methods are able to reveal otherwise undetectable retinal disorders.

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    Daizo Yonemura & Kazuo Kawasaki

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This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education of Japan (No. 387129, No. 148279, No. A-339016) and from the Ministry of Public Welfare of Japan.

A part of this paper was prepared as a special lecture at the 16th Symposium of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, at Morioka, in May 25, 1978.

Authors' address: Department of Ophthalmology School of Medicine Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920 Japan

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Yonemura, D., Kawasaki, K. New approaches to ophthalmic electrodiagnosis by retinal oscillatory potential, drug-induced responses from retinal pigment epithelium and cone potential. Doc Ophthalmol 48, 163–222 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00207350

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