Development of Retinal Amacrine Cells and Their Dendritic Stratification

Current Ophthalmology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 100-106

  Balasubramanian, Revathi ^a,b   Gan, Lin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Dendritic stratification; Retina; Retinogenesis; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929673123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40135-014-0048-2     Document Type: Article

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