Identification of retinal neurons in a regressive rodent eye (the naked mole-rat)

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-117

  Mills, Stephen L ^a,c   Catania, Kenneth C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye; Mole rat; Regressive evolution; Retina; Vision

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; VISION;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLE RATS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 3242660847     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804043020     Document Type: Article

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