Aberrant expression of c-Fos accompanies photoreceptor cell death in the rd mouse

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 593-612

  Rich, Kathryn A ^a,b   Zhan, Yutian ^b   Blanks, Janet C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; c Fos; mouse; photoreceptors; retina

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; GLIA CELL; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENES, FOS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHOTORECEPTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 0030997347     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(19970605)32:6<593::AID-NEU5>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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