Synaptic connections between eyelet photoreceptors and pigment dispersing factor-immunoreactive neurons of the blowfly Protophormia terraenovae

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 494, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 331-344

  Yasuyama, Kouji ^a   Okada, Yoshinori ^b   Hamanaka, Yoshitaka ^c   Shiga, Sakiko ^c  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Extraretinal photoreceptors; Eyelet; Pigment dispersing factor; Synapses

Indexed keywords

DYE; RHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLY; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPHORMIA TERRAENOVAE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIPTERA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOQUINOLINES; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; PEPTIDES; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RHODOPSIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 29144507738     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20812     Document Type: Article

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