Photoreceptor cells in the Xenopus retina

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 327-337

  Röhlich, Pál ^a,b   Szél, Ágoston ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Classification; Cones; Immunocytochemistry; Rods

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CONES; MAMMALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VISION;

CELL TYPES; CONE TYPE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLABELLING; MOLECULAR PROBES; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; ROD; STATES OF KNOWLEDGE; VISUAL PIGMENTS; XENOPUS;

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES;

RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COLOR VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

BOVINAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033839836     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20000901)50:5<327::AID-JEMT2>3.3.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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