Molecular cloning, mRNA expression, and immunocytochemical localization of a putative blue-light photoreceptor CRY4 in the chicken pineal gland

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1155-1165

  Kubo, Yoko ^a,b,c   Akiyama, Masashi ^a,b,c   Fukada, Yoshitaka ^a   Okano, Toshiyuki ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Circadian clock; Cryptochrome; Gene expression; Photoreceptor; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRYPTOCHROME; CRYPTOCHROME 4; MESSENGER RNA; PINOPSIN; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CELL LYSATE; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRY4 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATOR; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLAVOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PINEAL GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646092764     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03826.x     Document Type: Article

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