The pineal organ as a folded retina: Immunocytochemical localization of opsins

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 653-659

  Vígh, Béla ^c   Röhlich, Pál ^c   Görcs, Tamás ^a   Manzano E Silva, Maria João ^b   Szél, Ágoston ^c   Fejér, Zsolt ^c   Vígh Teichmann, Ingeborg ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b HOSPITAL DOS CAPUCHOS   (Portugal)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Electron Microscopy; Immunoreaction; Opsins; Pineal organs; Retina; Various vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; OPSIN; PIGMENT; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL TYPE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOSTOME; FISH; FROG; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REPTILE; RETINA FOLD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PETROMYZONTIDAE; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0342666229     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0248-4900(99)80022-7     Document Type: Article

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