Transgenic ablation of rod photoreceptors alters the circadian phenotype of mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 363-374

  Lupi, D ^a,b   Cooper, H M ^c   Froehlich, A ^a   Standford, L ^d   McCall, M A ^d,e   Foster, R G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centro Marino Internazionale (IMC)   (Italy)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological clock; Circadian entrainment; Retina; Retinal degeneration; Rod photoreceptors; Suprachiasmatic nuclei

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SURVIVAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENICULATE BODIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RODS (RETINA); SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0033103476     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00353-4     Document Type: Article

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