Effects of ethanol on photoreceptors and visual function in developing zebrafish

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4589-4597

  Matsui, Jonathan I ^a,b   Egana, Ana L ^a   Sponholtz, Todd R ^a   Adolph, Alan R ^a   Dowling, John E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MALFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE HYPOPLASIA; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; VISION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHANOL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 33750580274     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0971     Document Type: Article

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