Diversity of ganglion cells in the mouse retina: Unsupervised morphological classification and its limits

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 489, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-310

  Kong, Jee Hyun ^a   Fish, Daniel R ^a   Rockhill, Rebecca L ^a   Masland, Richard H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ganglion cell; Mouse; Regina; Type

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ISOQUINOLINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 22644437764     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20631     Document Type: Article

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