Cellular localisation of metabotropic glutamate receptors in the mammalian optic nerve: A mechanism for axon-glia communication

Brain Research

Volumn 741, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 75-81

  Jeffery, Glen ^a   Sharp, Claudia ^a   Malitschek, Barbara ^b   Salt, Thomas E ^a   Kuhn, Rainer ^b   Knöpfel, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

astrocyte; metabotropic glutamate receptor; mGluR3; mGluR5; retina

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AXONS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030602018     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00919-5     Document Type: Article

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