Changes of kynurenic acid content in the rat and chicken retina during ontogeny

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 687-691

  Rejdak, Robert ^a,b   Zarnowski, Tomasz ^b   Turski, Waldemar A ^b,c   Kocki, Tomasz ^b   Zagorski, Zbigniew ^b   Guenther, Elke ^a   Kohler, Konrad ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KYNURENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHICKEN; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINA;

EID: 0036939203     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0511-x     Document Type: Article

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