Immunocytochemical demonstration of visual pigments in the degenerate retinal and pineal photoreceptors of the blind cave salamander (Proteus anguinus)

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 303, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-25

  Kos, Marjanca ^a   Bulog, Boris ^a   Szel Agoston ^b   Röhlich, Pál ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Eye; Immunocytochemistry; Opsins; Proteus anguinus (Urodela); Regressive evolution; Retina

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLINDNESS; CONES (RETINA); EVOLUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PINEAL GLAND; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); URODELA;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; EURYCEA LUCIFUGA; HYDROMANTES; PROTEUS ANGUINUS;

EID: 0035091752     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410000298     Document Type: Article

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