Rod and cone function in coneless mice

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 807-816

  Williams, Gary A ^a   Daigle, Kristin A ^a   Jacobs, Gerald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral measurements of visual sensitivity; Coneless mice; Electroretinogram; Photoreceptor labeling; Ultraviolet sensitive cones

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DETERIORATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; LIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RODS (RETINA); ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION;

EID: 32544452241     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380522610X     Document Type: Article

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