The mGluR6 5' upstream transgene sequence directs a cell-specific and developmentally regulated expression in retinal rod and ON-type cone bipolar cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3014-3023

  Ueda, Yoshiki ^a   Iwakabe, Hideki ^a   Masu, Masayuki ^a   Suzuki, Misao ^b   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

immunostaining; metabotropic glutamate receptor; retinal bipolar cells; transgenic mouse; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ON OFF PHENOMENON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR GENE; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA ROD; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0030907495     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-09-03014.1997     Document Type: Article

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