Gap junctional coupling and connexin immunoreactivity in rabbit retinal glia

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Zahs, Kathleen R ^a   Ceelen, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Dye coupling; Electrical coupling; M ller cell

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LUCIFER YELLOW; NEUROBIOTIN; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MAMMAL; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CONNEXINS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOQUINOLINES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGLIA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RABBITS; RETINA;

EID: 33644872909     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806231018     Document Type: Article

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