Connections of contralaterally projecting isthmotectal axons and GABA-immunoreactive neurons in Xenopus tectum: An ultrastructural study

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-315

  Rybicka, Krystyna Kielan ^a   Udin, Susan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular; Inhibition; Isthmi; Tectum; Vision

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIBODY; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 24944551567     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805223064     Document Type: Article

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