Müller glia as an active compartment modulating nervous activity in the vertebrate retina: Neurotransmitters and trophic factors

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1466-1474

  De Melo Reis, Ricardo Augusto ^a   Ventura, Ana Lúcia Marques ^b   Schitine, Clarissa Sampaio ^a   De Mello, Maria Christina Fialho ^a   De Mello, Fernando Garcia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ATP; Dopamine; GABA; Glutamate; M ller glia; Retina; Trophic factors

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MUELLER CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PURINES; RETINA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 46249111848     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-008-9604-1     Document Type: Review

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