Opsin activation as a cause of congenital night blindness

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 731-735

  Jin, Shengnan ^a   Cornwall, M Carter ^b   Oprian, Daniel D ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037743559     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1070     Document Type: Article

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