Molecular evidence that human ocular ciliary epithelium expresses components involved in phototransduction

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 284, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 317-325

  Bertazolli Filho, Rubens ^a   Ghosh, Sikha ^a   Huang, Wenhu ^a   Wollmann, Guido ^a   Coca Prados, Miguel ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrestin; Circadian rhythm; Gene expression; Non visual phototransduction; Ocular ciliary epithelium; Rhodopsin; Rhodopsin kinase

Indexed keywords

RETINA S ANTIGEN; RHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN KINASE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CILIARY BODY EPITHELIUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 0034810870     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.4970     Document Type: Article

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