The retina of c-fos(-/-) mice: Electrophysiologic, morphologic and biochemical aspects

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 909-916

  Kueng Hitz, Nicole ^a   Grimm, Christian ^b   Lansel, Nicola ^b   Hafezi, Farhad ^b   He, Lihua ^b   Fox, Donald A ^b   Remé, Charlotte E ^b   Niemeyer, Günter ^b   Wenzel, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PROTEIN C FOS; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARRESTIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0034100521     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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