Regional distribution of nitrergic neurons in the inner retina of the chicken

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 205-220

  Wilson, Martin ^a   Nacsa, Nick ^b   Hart, Nathan S ^b,c   Weller, Cynthia ^a   Vaney, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; Ganglion cell; NADPH diaphorase; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; DENDRITE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CHICKENS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NADP; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RETINA;

EID: 79958776479     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000083     Document Type: Article

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