Antibody to calretinin stains AII amacrine cells in the rabbit retina: Double-label and confocal analyses

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-18

  Massey, Stephen C ^a   Mills, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Parvalbumin; Protein kinase C; Retinal circuitry; Rod bipolar cell; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA ROD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

3,3'-DIAMINOBENZIDINE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; GOATS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERNEURONS; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARVALBUMINS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RABBITS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033575692     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990816)411:1<3::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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