Slowed recovery of rod photoresponse in mice lacking the GTPase accelerating protein RGS9-1

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6769, 2000, Pages 557-560

  Chen, Ching Kang ^a   Burns, Marie E ^b   He, Wel ^c   Wensel, Theodorø G ^c   Baylor, Denis A ^b   Simon, Melvin I ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; ANIMALS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RGS PROTEINS; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034598728     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000601     Document Type: Article

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