Reduced synaptic vesicle density and aberrant synaptic localization caused by a splice site mutation in the Rs1h gene

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 887-898

  Johnson, Britt A ^a   Ikeda, Sakae ^a   Pinto, Lawrence H ^b   Ikeda, Akihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERG b wave loss; Outer plexiform layer; Retinoschisin; Synaptic morphology; Synaptic vesicles

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RSH1 GENE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; X LINKED RETINOSCHISIS;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RETINA; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 33947386147     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806230244     Document Type: Article

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