Retinal degeneration in the rd mouse in the absence of c-fos

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2239-2244

  Hafezi, Farhad ^a   Abegg, Mathias ^b   Grimm, Christian ^b   Wenzel, Andreas ^b   Munz, Kurt ^b   Stürmer, Jörg ^b   Farber, Debora B ^b   Remé, Charlotte E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GENOTYPE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0031733001     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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