The electroretinogram of the rhodopsin knockout mouse

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 391-398

  Toda, Kazushige ^a   Bush, Ronald A ^a   Humphries, Peter ^b   Sieving, Paul A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

A wave; B wave; Electroretinogram; Mouse rhodopsin gene knockout; Rod photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0033103461     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899162187     Document Type: Article

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