Intrinsic choroidal neurons in the chicken eye: Chemical coding and synaptic input

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-157

  Stübinger, Karin ^a   Brehmer, Axel ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a   Reitsamer, Herbert ^b   Nickla, Debora ^c   Schrödl, Falk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Immunohistochemistry; Myopia; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; GALANIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOSTATIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 2;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHOROID; CILIARY GANGLION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GANGLION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOPIA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOROID; EYE; GANGLIA; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOPIA; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

AVES; PRIMATES;

EID: 77956469500     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-010-0723-9     Document Type: Article

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