Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) is localized to Muller cells in all vertebrate retinas

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2299-2303

  Haverkamp, Silke ^a,b   Kolb, Helga ^b   Cuenca, Nicolas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Glial cells; Horizontal cell axon terminals; Immunostaining

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FISH; FROG; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MONKEY; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; SALAMANDER; SQUIRREL; TURTLE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; ENDOTHELIUM; FISHES; HAPLORHINI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RETINA; SCIURIDAE; TURTLES; URODELA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033005216     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00007-3     Document Type: Article

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