Vesicular glutamate transporter 3 expression identifies glutamatergic amacrine cells in the rodent retina

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 477, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 386-398

  Johnson, Juliette ^a   Sherry, David M ^b   Liu, Xiaorong ^a   Fremeau Jr , Robert T ^a   Seal, Rebecca P ^a   Edwards, Robert H ^a   Copenhagen, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycine; Interneuron; VGLUT1

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALRETININ; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; ISOPROTEIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DENDRITE; EXOCYTOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMACRINE CELLS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, ACIDIC; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 4444267808     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20250     Document Type: Article

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