Differentiation and morphogenesis in pellet cultures of developing rat retinal cells

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 377, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 341-350

  Watanabe, Takashi ^a,b,e   Voyvodic, James T ^b,c   Chan Ling, Tailoi ^b,d   Sagara, Hiroshi ^e   Hirosawa, Kazushige ^e   Mio, Yasuko ^a   Matsushima, Satsuki ^a   Uchimura, Hidemasa ^a   Nakahara, Kazuhiko ^f   Raff, Martin C ^b  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; immunofluorescence staining; reaggregate culture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA ROD; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA;

EID: 18344401634     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970120)377:3<341::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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