Synaptic connectivity of two types of recoverin-labeled cone bipolar cells and glutamic acid decarboxylase immunoreactive amacrine cells in the inner plexiform layer of the rat retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 791-800

  Chun, Myung Hoon ^a   Kim, In Beom ^a   Oh, Su Ja ^a   Chung, Jin Woong ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Cone bipolar cells; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Rat; Recoverin; Retina; Synaptic circuitry

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RETINA; RETINA CONE; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RETINA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033165993     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899164174     Document Type: Article

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