Visual system labeled by c-Fos immunohistochemistry after light exposure in the 'blind' subterranean Zambian mole-rat (Cryptomys anselli)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 209-220

  Oelschläger, Helmut H A ^a   Nakamura, Makoto ^a   Herzog, Matthias ^a   Burda, Hynek ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

c Fos; Cryptomys anselli; Immunohistochemistry; Light experiment; Oncoprotein; Rodentia; Subterranean mole rat; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0342521566     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006653     Document Type: Article

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