Dendrodendritic electrical synapses between mammalian retinal ganglion cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 10553-10567

  Hidaka, Soh ^a   Akahori, Yasushi ^b   Kurosawa, Yoshikazu ^b  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connexin36; Dendrodendritic gap junctions; Electrical synapses; High voltage electron microscopy; Patch clamp; Rat retina; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CONNEXINS; COS CELLS; DENDRITES; ELECTRICITY; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 9244229538     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3319-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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