Dopaminergic and GABAergic retinal cell populations in mammals

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-42

  Nguyen Legros, Jeanine ^a,b   Versaux Botteri, Claudine ^a   Savy, Claudine ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Lab de NeuroCytologie Oculaire   (France)

Author keywords

glutamate decarboxylase; immunohistochemistry; retinal circuitry; tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; NEURONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CELL POPULATIONS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; GABAERGIC; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODERN TECHNIQUES; RETINAL CELLS; RETINAL CIRCUITRY; TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE;

MAMMALS;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031030819     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970101)36:1<26::AID-JEMT3>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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