Connections of two types of flat cone bipolars in the rabbit retina

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 371, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 164-178

  Merighi, Adalberto ^a,b   Raviola, Elio ^a   Dacheux, Ramon F ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; intracellular staining; laser confocal microscopy; neural networks; photopic vision

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CONES (RETINA); MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RABBITS; RODS (RETINA); SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030055857     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960715)371:1<164::AID-CNE10>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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