Static, but not optokinetic visual stimuli induce Fos expression in the retina and brain of retinal degeneration mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 342, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 9-12

  Lima, Alice G ^a   Britto, Luiz R G ^a   Hossokawa, Neide M ^a   Hamassaki Britto, Dânia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Fos; Ganglion cells; Immediate early genes; Retinal degeneration; Visual pathways

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN GANGLION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ONCOGENE C FOS; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0242669212     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00217-9     Document Type: Article

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