Group II and group III metabotropic glutamate receptors in the rat retina: Distributions and developmental expression patterns

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2177-2187

  Koulen, Peter ^a   Malitschek, Barbara ^b   Kuhn, Rainer ^b   Wässle, Heinz ^a   Brandstätter, Johann Helmut ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cholinergic amacrine cells; GABAergic amacrine cells; Immunocytochemistry; mGluR2; mGluR3; mGluR4; Postsynaptic expression; Retinal development

Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SYNAPSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RETINA; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 0029989951     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb00739.x     Document Type: Article

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