Horizontal cells of the rat retina show choline acetyltransferase- and vesicular acetylcholine transporter-like immunoreactivities during early postnatal developmental stages

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 83-86

  Kim, In Beom ^a   Park, Dae Kyoon ^a   Oh, Su Ja ^a   Chun, Myung Hoon ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Horizontal cell; Immunohistochemistry; Rat; Retina; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALBINDIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032483486     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00605-3     Document Type: Article

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