Photoreceptor topography of the retina in the New World monkey Cebus apella

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 2395-2409

  Andrade Da Costa, Belmira Lara S ^a   Hokoç, Jan Nora ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fovea; Photopic vision; Primates; Scotopic vision; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; MALE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA;

EID: 0033910530     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00104-8     Document Type: Article

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