Electrophysiological evidence of GABAA and GABAC receptors on zebrafish retinal bipolar cells

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-153

  Connaughton, Victoria P ^a   Nelson, Ralph ^b   Bender, Anna M ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar cells; GABA; Inhibition; Retina; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID C RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; BICUCULLINE; MUSCIMOL; PICROTOXIN; ZINC; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GABA-C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; WHOLE CELL; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PICROTOXIN; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; ZEBRAFISH; ZINC;

EID: 42649126370     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523808080322     Document Type: Article

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