GABA expression and regulation by sensory experience in the developing visual system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Miraucourt, Loïs S ^a   da Silva, Jorge Santos ^b   Burgos, Kasandra ^b,c   Li, Jianli ^b,d   Abe, Hikari ^a   Ruthazer, Edward S ^a   Cline, Hollis T ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; GLYCINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; NERVE; NEURONAL SOMATA; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; TADPOLE; TEGMENTUM; TISSUE SECTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SENSATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LARVA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SENSATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84855398612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029086     Document Type: Article

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