Differential regulation of ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor-α expression in all major neuronal cell classes during development of the chick retina

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 400, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 244-254

  Fuhrmann, Sabine ^a,c   Kirsch, Matthias ^a   Heller, Stefan ^b,d   Rohrer, Hermann ^b   Hofmann, Hans Dieter ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Bipolar cells; Ciliary neurotrophic factor; Ganglion cells; Horizontal cells; Photoreceptors

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RETINA;

EID: 0032547703     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981019)400:2<244::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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