Losses of immunoreactive parvalbumin amacrine and immunoreactive αprotein kinase C bipolar cells caused by methylmercury chloride intoxication in the retina of the tropical fish Hoplias malabaricus

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 405-410

  Bonci, D M O ^a   de Lima, S M A ^b   Grotzner S R ^c   Oliveira Ribeiro, C A ^c   Hamassaki, D E ^a   Ventura, D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Displaced amacrine cells; Hoplias malabaricus; Methylmercury; ON bipolar cells; Retina

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VISION;

ANIMALIA; ERYTHRINIDAE; HOPLIAS MALABARICUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33644802332     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006000300011     Document Type: Article

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