Development and plasticity of the retina in the opossum Monodelphis domestica

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-188

  Djavadian, Rouzanna ^a   Bisti, Silvia ^b   Maccarone, Rita ^b   Bartkowska, Katarzyna ^a   Turlejski, Krzysztof ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell death; Development; Generation of cells; Plasticity; Retina

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN P14; PROTEIN P19; PROTEIN P25; PROTEIN P60;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MARSUPIAL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PLASTICITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; EYE ENUCLEATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MONODELPHIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PLANT LECTINS; RETINA; VIMENTIN;

EID: 33751005628     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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