Gap junctional regulatory mechanisms in the AII amacrine cell of the rabbit retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 791-805

  Xia, Xiao Bo ^a   Mills, Stephen L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical coupling; Gap junction; Retina

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NEUROBIOTIN; NITRIC OXIDE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL TYPE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DOPAMINE RELEASE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IONTOPHORESIS; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CYCLIC AMP; DOPAMINE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; RABBITS; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 12144255994     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804215127     Document Type: Article

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