Photoreceptor calcium channels: Insight from night blindness

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 561-568

  Morgans, Catherine W ^a   Bayley, Philippa R ^a   Oesch, Nicholas W ^a   Ren, Gaoying ^a   Akileswaran, Lakshmi ^a   Taylor, W Rowland ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channel; CSNB2; Photoreceptor; Ribbon synapse; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENZYME RELEASE; EXTRACTION; GENE LOCUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CONES (RETINA); DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNAPTOTAGMINS;

EID: 32544444462     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805225038     Document Type: Article

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