Structural and functional abnormalities of retinal ribbon synapses due to Cacna2d4 mutation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3523-3530

  Wycisk, Katharina A ^a   Budde, Birgit ^b   Feil, Silke ^a   Skosyrski, Sergej ^c   Buzzi, Francesca ^a   Neidhardt, John ^a   Glaus, Esther ^a   Nürnberg, Peter ^b   Ruether, Klaus ^c   Berger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL, VOLTAGE DEPENDENT, ALPHA 2/DELTA SUBUNIT 4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CALCIUM CHANNEL, VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT, ALPHA 2/DELTA SUBUNIT 4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; C57BL 10 MOUSE; CACNA2D4 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RETINOPATHY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON; A J MOUSE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33748109427     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0271     Document Type: Article

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