Prolonged dark adaptation changes connexin expression in the mouse retina

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1331-1341

  Kihara, Alexandre Hiroaki ^a   De Castro, Leandro Mantovani ^a   Moriscot, Anselmo Sigari ^a   Hamassaki, Dânia Emi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Connexin; Dark adaptation; Gap junction; PCR; Retina

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; CONNEXIN 50; CONNEXIN 57; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GLIA; LIGHT; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DARK ADAPTATION; EYE PROTEINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINA; VISION;

EID: 33646377892     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20815     Document Type: Article

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