Spatial responses to light in mice with severe retinal degeneration

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 204-206

  Mrosovsky, N ^a   Hampton, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; Irradiance detection; Light dark preference; Mouse; Retinal degeneration; Rods

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031050278     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13374-2     Document Type: Article

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