Horizontal cell morphology in nocturnal and diurnal primates: A comparison between owl-monkey (Aotus) and capuchin monkey (Cebus)

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 405-415

  Dos Santos, Setsuko N ^a   Dos Reis, José Wesley L ^a   Da Silva Filho, Manoel ^a   Kremers, Jan ^b   Silveira, Luiz Carlos L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aotus; Carbocyanine dye; Cebus; Horizontal cells; Primate vision; Retinal circuitry

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE PERCHLORATE; PERCHLORATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENSITY; MONKEY; NERVE ENDING; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STAINING;

ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; CARBOCYANINES; CEBUS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; FEMALE; MALE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETINA; RETINAL HORIZONTAL CELLS;

EID: 32544431575     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805224033     Document Type: Article

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