Connexin 36 in photoreceptor cells: Studies on transgenic rod-less and cone-less mouse retinas

Molecular Vision

Volumn 10, Issue , 2004, Pages 323-327

  Dang, Loan ^a   Pulukuri, Sadhona ^a   Mears, Alan J ^b   Swaroop, Anand ^b,c   Reese, Benjamin E ^d   Sitaramayya, Ari ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CONNEXIN 36; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GAP JUNCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA ROD; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONES (RETINA); CONNEXINS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RODS (RETINA); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 2442586598     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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