Specific alterations of tyrosine hydroxylase immunopositive cells in the retina of NT-4 knock out mice

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1523-1536

  Calamusa, Martina ^a,b   Pattabiraman, Padmanabhan Paranji ^c   Pozdeyev, Nikita ^d   Iuvone, P Michael ^d   Cellerino, Alessandro ^b   Domenici, Luciano ^a,c,e  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dopamine; In situ hybridization; Maturation; Neurotrophic factors; Visual system

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN NT 4; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GENE DELETION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34247131747     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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