Changing patterns of spatial buffering of glutamate in developing rat retinae are mediated by the Muller cell glutamate transporter GLAST

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 297, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-66

  Pow, David V ^a   Barnett, Nigel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

D aspartate; Development; Glutamate; Glutamate transporter (GLAST); Rat (Wistar); Retina

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BUFFER; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SOMATIC CELL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AGING; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPARTIC ACID; ASTROCYTES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GLUTAMIC ACID; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINA;

EID: 0033007878     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051333     Document Type: Article

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