Probing inner retinal circuits in the rod pathway: A comparison of c-fos activation in mutant mice

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 873-881

  Hanzlicek, Brett W ^a   Peachey, Neal S ^a,b   Grimm, Christian ^c   Hagstrom, Stephanie A ^b   Ball, Sherry L ^a,b,d  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; c fos immunohistochemistry; Inner retinal circuits; Mouse retina

Indexed keywords

TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); TRANSDUCIN; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 15944395390     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804216078     Document Type: Article

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