Distribution of cone photoreceptors in the mammalian retina

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 445-462

  Szél, Ágoston ^a,c   Röhlich, Pal ^a   Caffé, A Romeo ^b   Van Veen, Theo ^c  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Cone differentiation; Photoreceptor mosaic; Rods

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CONSERVATION; MAMMALS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

CONE DIFFERENTIATION; CONE PHOTORECEPTORS; CONSTANT RATIO; DIFFERENT CLASS; LONG WAVES; MAMMALIAN SPECIES; PEAK DENSITY; PHOTORECEPTOR MOSAIC; ROD; SHORT WAVES;

COLOR VISION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030471288     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19961215)35:6<445::AID-JEMT4>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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