What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Endocrinology
- Andrology
- Retina
Her scientific interests lie mostly in Retina, Inner plexiform layer, Neuroscience, Biophysics and Ganglion.
Her Retina research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Golgi apparatus, Immunocytochemistry, Anatomy and Cell biology.
Her study focuses on the intersection of Golgi apparatus and fields such as Amacrine cell with connections in the field of Ultrastructure, Electron microscopic and Auto radiography.
Roberta G. Pourcho studied Immunocytochemistry and Staining that intersect with Neurotransmission and Inner nuclear layer.
Her Cell biology research incorporates themes from Glutamate receptor, Receptor and Postsynaptic potential.
Her Ganglion cell layer research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Soma and Cell type.
Her most cited work include:
- A combined Golgi and autoradiographic study of (3H)glycine-accumulating amacrine cells in the cat retina. (188 citations)
- Dopaminergic amacrine cells in the cat retina (149 citations)
- Uptake of [3H]glycine and [3H]GABA by amacrine cells in the cat retina. (142 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Roberta G. Pourcho focuses on Retina, Cell biology, Inner plexiform layer, Neuroscience and Biophysics.
Roberta G. Pourcho has researched Retina in several fields, including Glutamate receptor, Immunocytochemistry and Anatomy, Ganglion.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Molecular biology and Staining in addition to Immunocytochemistry.
Her Cell biology research includes themes of Receptor and Endocrinology.
The Inner plexiform layer study combines topics in areas such as Choline acetyltransferase, Cell type and Postsynaptic potential.
Many of her research projects under Neuroscience are closely connected to Cell bodies and Horseradish peroxidase with Cell bodies and Horseradish peroxidase, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.
She most often published in these fields:
- Retina (74.07%)
- Cell biology (46.30%)
- Inner plexiform layer (33.33%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2002-2007)?
- Retina (74.07%)
- Biophysics (25.93%)
- Cell biology (46.30%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Her primary areas of study are Retina, Biophysics, Cell biology, Glutamate receptor and Axon.
Her research in Retina intersects with topics in Retinal and Biochemistry.
In her research, Rat retina is intimately related to Anatomy, which falls under the overarching field of Biophysics.
Roberta G. Pourcho works mostly in the field of Cell biology, limiting it down to topics relating to Glutamatergic and, in certain cases, Postsynaptic potential, as a part of the same area of interest.
Her research on Axon often connects related topics like Inner plexiform layer.
Her work deals with themes such as Choline acetyltransferase, Giant retinal ganglion cells, Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and Potassium channel, which intersect with Inner plexiform layer.
Between 2002 and 2007, her most popular works were:
- Immunocytochemical localization of three vesicular glutamate transporters in the cat retina (48 citations)
- Differential distribution of hyperpolarization-activated and cyclic nucleotide-gated channels in cone bipolar cells of the rat retina (42 citations)
- Metabolic mapping in mammalian retina: a biochemical and 3H-2-deoxyglucose autoradiographic study. (41 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Endocrinology
- Andrology
- Biochemistry
Her main research concerns Retina, Inner plexiform layer, Axon, Lactic acid and Hexokinase.
Other disciplines of study, such as HCN channel and Population, are mixed together with her Retina studies.
In her papers, Roberta G. Pourcho integrates diverse fields, such as HCN channel, Choline acetyltransferase, Biophysics, Potassium channel, Cell type and Neuroscience.
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, Cell biology, Glutamatergic, Glutamate receptor and Giant retinal ganglion cells are fields of study that intersect with her Population research.
Lactic acid combines with fields such as Biochemistry, Retinal, Retinal pigment epithelium, Ganglion cell layer and Glucose uptake in her research.
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