Retinal amino acid neurochemistry in health and disease

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 310-332

  Kalloniatis, Michael ^a,b,c   Loh, Chee Seang ^c   Acosta, Monica L ^c   Tomisich, Guido ^b   Zhu, Yuan ^a   Nivison Smith, Lisa ^a   Fletcher, Erica L ^b   Chua, Jacqueline ^c   Sun, Daniel ^c   Arunthavasothy, Niru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amino acids; GABA; GAD; Glutamate; Glutamine; Glutamine synthetase; Glycine; Immunoreactivity; Remodelling; Retina

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; TAURINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONVALESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAURINE;

EID: 84877667365     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12015     Document Type: Article

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