Pretectal connections in turtles with special reference to the visual thalamic centers: A hodological and γ-aminobutyric acid-immunohistochemical study

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 426, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-50

  Stanton, Susan G ^a,b,c   Harrison, Robert V ^a,b,d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combined axonal tracing and immunolabeling; Light microscopic methods; Reptiles; Visual pretectothalamic aminobutyric acidergic projections

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; INJECTIONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS; TURTLES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034626614     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20001009)426:1<31::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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