Varicosities of intraretinal ganglion cell axons in human and nonhuman primates

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-9

  Wang, Lin ^a   Dong, Jin ^a   Cull, Grant ^a   Fortune, Brad ^a   Cioffi, George A ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHILD; DESMOSOME; GLIA CELL; HEMIDESMOSOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SIZE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INFANT; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0037251187     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0333     Document Type: Article

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