Evidence for glycine, GABAA, and GABAB receptors on rabbit OFF-alpha ganglion cells

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 285-296

  Rotolo, Thomas C ^a   Dacheux, Ramon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha ganglion cells; Confocal microscopy; GABA receptors; Glycine receptors; Whole cell patch clamp recordings

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; BENZYL[3 [[1 (3,4 DICHLOROPHENYL)ETHYL]AMINO] 2 HYDROXYPROPYL]PHOSPHINIC ACID; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; CALCIUM ION; CESIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; PICROTOXIN; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; STRYCHNINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0347764625     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523803203072     Document Type: Article

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