Frog retinal ganglion cells projecting to the tectum layer F release acetylcholine as co-mediator

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 522, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-150

  Baginskas, Armantas ^a   Kuraite, Vilija ^a   Kuras, Antanas ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Frog retinotectal axon; Presynaptic nicotinic modulation; Synaptic transmission; Transmitter co release

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RANA TEMPORARIA; REDUCTION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; TECTUM;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RANA TEMPORARIA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TECTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 84863869749     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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