Light microscopic comparison of the patterns of glutamate-like and homocysteate-like immunoreactivities in rat dorsal lateral geniculate after combined visual cortical and retinal ablations

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-380

  Grandes, P ^a   Mateos, J M ^a   Azkue, J ^a   Sarria R ^a   Cuenod M ^b   Streit, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Light microscopy; Neurotransmission; Postembedding immunocytochemistry; Rat; Visual pathway

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA INJURY; SENSORY NERVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; TISSUE FIXATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030936051     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(97)01162-0     Document Type: Article

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