Localization of AMPA-selective glutamate receptor subunits in the cat retina: A light- and electron-microscopic study

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 169-177

  Qin, Pu ^a   Pourcho, Roberta G ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AII amacrine cells; Amacrine cells; Bipolar cells; Dyad synapses; Ganglion cells; GluR1; GluR2 3; Horizontal cells; Immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERNEURON; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATS; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0032987831     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899161121     Document Type: Article

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