Glycinergic synapses in the rod pathway of the rat retina: Cone bipolar cells express the α1 subunit of the glycine receptor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 5131-5146

  Sassoè Pognetto, Marco ^a,b   Wässle, Heinz ^a   Grünert, Ulrike ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Max Planck Inst F Hirnforschung ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

All amacrine cell; cone bipolar cell; electron microscopy; gephyrin; glycine receptor; immunocytochemistry; parvalbumin; rat retina; recoverin; rod pathway; 1 subunit

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; SYNAPSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0027941064     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.14-08-05131.1994     Document Type: Article

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