The area centralis in the chicken retina contains efferent target amacrine cells

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-254

  Weller, Cynthia ^a   Lindstrom, Sarah H ^a   De Grip, Willem J ^b   Wilson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avian; Centrifugal; Parvalbumin; Rhodopsin; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; RHODOPSIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA ROD; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PIGEONS AND DOVES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHICKENS; COLUMBIDAE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS, EFFERENT; RHODOPSIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 67649392681     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523808080917     Document Type: Article

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