The dendritic architecture of the cholinergic plexus in the rabbit retina: Selective labeling by glycine accumulation in the presence of sarcosine

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 421, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-13

  Vaney, David I ^a   Pow, David V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cholinergic amacrine cells; Dendritic fasciculation; Direction selective ganglion cells; Glycine uptake; Methylglycine; Neurobiotin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; GLYCINE; SARCOSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; FASCICULATION; NERVE PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHOLINE; DENDRITES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLYCINE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RABBITS; RATS; RETINA; SARCOSINE;

EID: 0034701859     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000522)421:1<1::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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