A glial palisade delineates the ipsilateral optic projection in Monodelphis

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 397-400

  Maclaren, Robert E ^a  

^a ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Axon guidance; Chiasm; Development; Opossum

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; METABOLISM; OPOSSUM; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROGLIA; OPOSSUMS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032030646     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898152100     Document Type: Article

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