A light-driven rhythm in neurotensin-like immunoreactivity in the chicken retina

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Yang, D S ^a   Li, Z K ^a   Morgan, I G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amacrine; Colocalization; Enkephalin; Light adaptation; Neurotensin; Release; Retina; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN; NEUROTENSIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; VISION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARK ADAPTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; NEUROTENSIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA;

EID: 0030792215     PISSN: 08149763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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