Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), first discovered by Roberts and Frankel in 1950, has
been shown to be a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system including …

Bipolar cells make reciprocal synapses with amacrine cells in the inner plexiform layer; both
feedforward connections and feedback connections are present. The physiological …

Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinano-machi, Shinjuku-
ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan abstract Feedback from horizontal cells (HCs) to cone …

Pattern recognition of amino acid signals partitions the cells of the goldfish retina into nine
statistically unique biochemical theme classes and permits a first-order chemical map** of …

Nonretinal/nonpineal photosensitivity has been found in the brain of vertebrates, but the
molecular basis for such a “deep brain” photoreception system remains unclear. We …

1. When toad retinae were incubated first with veratrine, then with antibodies that reacted
with the outer segments of photoreceptors, and finally with complement, horizontal cells …

Golgi impregnation techniques were combined with electron microscopic autoradiography of
(3H) muscimol in order to provide morphological identification of labeled neurons in the cat …

Isolated cones dissociated from the retina of the freshwater turtle were voltage clamped
using a single'patch'pipette electrode. gamma‐Aminobutyric acid (GABA) applied …

Rabbit antisera directed against γ-amino butyric acid (GABA) conjugated to bovine serum
albumin was used to localize neurons containing GABA-like immunoreactivity in the retinas …

The rasborine cyprinid Danio rerio (the zebrafish) has become a popular model of retinal
function and development. Its value depends, in part, on validation of homologies with …