'Lens mitochondria' in the retinal cones of the tree-shrew Tupaia belangeri

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 267-271

  Knabe, Wolfgang ^a   Skatchkov, Serguei ^b   Kuhn, Hans Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Cone inner segment; Megamitochondria; Refraction; Retina; Tupaia belangeri

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; INSECTIVORE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; RETINA CONE; SCANDENTIA;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; REFRACTOMETRY; TUPAIA;

EID: 0031031827     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00199-X     Document Type: Article

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