Effects of taurine and light on retinal GABA content and the efflux of 14C-GABA and 14C-aspartate from frog retina

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 442, Issue , 1998, Pages 415-421

  Haroutounian, Jasmine E ^a   Petrosian, Andranik M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; STRYCHNINE; TAURINE; TAURINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; B WAVE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FROG; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINA; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIGHT; RANA RIDIBUNDA; RETINA; TAURINE;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 0031810355     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0117-0_51     Document Type: Article

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