Dystrophin in rod spharulas; submembranous dense regions facing bipolar cell processes

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 243-248

  Ueda, Hideho ^a   Baba, Takeshi ^a   Terada, Nobuo ^a   Kato, Yasuko ^a   Tsukahara, Shigeo ^a   Ohno, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RETINA ROD; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; RETINA; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DYSTROPHIN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETINA; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 0030613548     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050164     Document Type: Article

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