Spatiotemporal gradients of differentiation of chick retina Types I and II cholinergic cells: Identification of a common postmitotic cell population

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 410, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 457-466

  Prada, F ^a   Medina, J I ^b   Lopez Gallardo M ^b   Lopez R ^b   Quesada, A ^a   Spira, A ^c   Prada, Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Cell fate; Displaced amacrine cells; Neurotransmitters; Retinal development

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CHICK EMBRYO; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GOLGI APPARATUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; RETINA;

EID: 0033517163     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990802)410:3<457::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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