Intrinsic choroidal neurons in the human eye: Projections, targets, and basic electrophysiological data

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3705-3712

  Schrödl, Falk ^a,d   De Laet, Ann ^b,c   Tassignon, Marie Jose ^c   Van Bogaert, Pierre Paul ^b   Brehmer, Axel ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a   Timmermans, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Laboratory of Electrobiology   (Belgium)

^c ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d Anatomisches Institut II   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BIOTIN DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; NEUROBIOTIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADULT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GANGLION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRINSIC CHOROIDAL NEURON; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGOPALATINE GANGLION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOTIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOROID; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 18544409530     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0232     Document Type: Article

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