Dopaminergic and GABAergic amacrine cells are direct targets of melatonin: Immunocytochemical study of mt1 melatonin receptor in guinea pig retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-70

  Fujieda, Hiroki ^a,b   Scher, Judite ^a,b   Hamadanizadeh, Soheila A ^a   Wankiewicz, Ellen ^a,b   Pang, Shiu F ^c   Brown, Gregory M ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

GABA; Immunocytochemistry; Mt1 Melatonin receptor; Retina; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DENDRITES; DOPAMINE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; MELATONIN; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0034022819     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800171068     Document Type: Article

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