Dendritic spread and functional coverage of starburst amacrine cells

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 505, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 539-546

  Keeley, Patrick W ^a   Whitney, Irene E ^a   Raven, Mary A ^a   Reese, Benjamin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ChAT; Cholinergic amacrine cell; Differentiation; Retinal mosaic; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

A J MOUSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DENDRITES; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 38049033999     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21518     Document Type: Article

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