Glutamate receptor activity is required for normal development of tectal cell dendrites in vivo

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 7836-7846

  Rajan, Indrani ^a   Cline, Hollis T ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent; Dendrite growth; In vivo imaging; NMDA receptor; Retinotectal; Xenopus development

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032190087     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-19-07836.1998     Document Type: Article

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