Comparison of the ultrastructure of cortical and retinal terminals in the rat superior colliculus

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 850-858

  Boka, Kamran ^a   Chomsung, Ranida ^a   Li, Jianli ^a   Bickford, Martha E ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotectal; Electron microscopy synapse; GABA; Retinoectal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33747088909     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20359     Document Type: Article

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