Abundance and ultrastructural diversity of neuronal gap junctions in the OFF and ON sublaminae of the inner plexiform layer of rat and mouse retina

Neuroscience

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1093-1117

  Kamasawa, N ^a   Furman, C S ^b   Davidson, K G V ^a   Sampson, J A ^a   Magnie, A R ^a   Gebhardt, B R ^a   Kamasawa, M ^a   Yasumura, T ^a   Zumbrunnen, J R ^a   Pickard, G E ^a   Nagy, J I ^c   Rash, J E ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

confocal immunocytochemistry; connexin36; Cx36; freeze fracture replica immunogold labeling; FRIL

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZE FRACTURE; GAP JUNCTION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; ILLUMINATION; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETINA; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FREEZE FRACTURING; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); VISION;

EID: 33750343808     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.020     Document Type: Article

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