The development of excitatory transmitter amino acid-containing neurons in the rat visual cortex. A light and electron microscopic immunocytochemical study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 347-359

  Dori, Ioanna ^a   Parnavelas, John G ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspartate; Developing neocortex; Glutamate; Immunocytochemistry; Rat

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029818877     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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