Postembedding immunocytochemistry demonstrates directly that both retinal and cortical terminals in the cat superior colliculus are glutamate immunoreactive

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 371, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 633-648

  Mize, R Ranney ^a   Butler, Grace D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal gold; excitatory transmission; lesions; tectum; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; COLLOIDAL GOLD; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CAT; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; VISUAL CORTEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROGLIA; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TISSUE EMBEDDING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029813819     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960805)371:4<633::AID-CNE11>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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