Normal chiasmatic routing of uncrossed projections from the ventrotemporal retina in albino Xenopus frogs

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 458, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 425-439

  Grant, Simon ^a   Waller, William ^b   Bhalla, Ashish ^b   Kennard, Christopher ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Melanin; Retinal ganglion cells; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO CELL; FROG; GENICULATE BODY; MALE; MELANOGENESIS; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; THALAMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VENTROTEMPORAL RETINA; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS;

ALBINISM, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPTIC CHIASM; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0037436888     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10598     Document Type: Article

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