Ultrastructural localization suggests that retinal and cortical inputs access different metabotropic glutamate receptors in the lateral geniculate nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 8181-8192

  Godwin, Dwayne W ^a   Van Horn, Susan C ^a   Erişir, Alev ^a   Sesma, Michael ^a,b   Romano, Carmelo ^a,c   Sherman, S Murray ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

corticogeniculate; glomerulus; immunocytochemistry; interneurons; thalamus; vision

Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VISION;

EID: 0029808761     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-24-08181.1996     Document Type: Article

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