Cone-based vision in the aging mouse

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2037-2046

  Williams, Gary A ^a   Jacobs, Gerald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Behavioral sensitivity; Electroretinogram (ERG); Mus musculus; Opsin; Photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; OPSIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION;

EID: 34250170130     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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