Local, possibly contact-mediated signalling restricted to homotypic neurons controls the regular spacing of cells within the cholinergic arrays in the developing rodent retina

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1509-1516

  Galli Resta, Lucia ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Patterning; Rat; Retinal mosaics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENE; VERTEBRATE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENES, BCL-2; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOSAICISM; NEURONS; RATS; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034057182     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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