The topography of cone photoreceptors in the retina of a diurnal rodent, the agouti (Dasyprocta aguti)

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-175

  Rocha, Fernando Allan De Farias ^a   Ahnelt, Peter K ^b   Peichl, Leo ^c   Saito, Cézar A ^a   Silveira, Luiz Carlos L ^a   De Lima, Silene Maria A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone mosaic; Cone opsin; Hystricomorph rodents; Immunocytochemistry; Visual streak

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; OPSIN; CONE OPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA NERVE CELL; RODENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; COLOR VISION; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLOR VISION; CONE OPSINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; RODENTIA;

EID: 67649407745     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380808098X     Document Type: Article

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