Extracellular and asymmetric forms of acetylcholinesterase are expressed on cholinergic and noncholinergic terminal neuropil of the developing chick retina

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 286, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-22

  Reiss, Yvonne ^a,b,e   Kröger, Stephan ^b   Grassi, Jaques ^c   Tsim, Karl W K ^d   Willbold, Elmar ^a   Layer, Paul G ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicken (White Leghorn); Choline acetyltransferase; Cholinergic system; Inner plexiform layer; Neural stratification; Retina

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; FROZEN SECTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VITREOUS BODY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029907384     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050670     Document Type: Article

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