Cloning and immunocytochemical localization of a cyclic nucleotide-gated channel α-subunit to all cone photoreceptors in the mouse retina

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 421, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 80-94

  Hirano, Arlene A ^a,b   Hack, Iris ^a   Wässle, Heinz ^a   Duvoisin, Robert M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium calmodulin; Phototransduction; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CATION CHANNEL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA CONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONES (RETINA); DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ION CHANNELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034701747     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000522)421:1<80::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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