Fluorescent photoreceptors of transgenic Xenopus laevis imaged in vivo by two microscopy techniques

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3276-3280

  Moritz, Orson L ^a   Tam, Beatrice M ^a   Knox, Barry E ^b   Papermaster, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032727225     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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