Evidence for RPE65-independent vision in the cone-dominated zebrafish retina

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1940-1949

  Schonthaler, Helia B ^a,f   Lampert, Johanna M ^b,d   Isken, Andrea ^b   Rinner, Oliver ^a,e   Mader, Andreas ^b   Gesemann, Matthias ^a   Oberhauser, Vitus ^b   Golczak, Marcin ^c   Biehlmaier, Oliver ^a   Palczewski, Krzysztof ^c   Neuhauss, Stephan C F ^a   Von Lintig, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

11 cis retinal; Photoreceptor development; Pigment epithelium; Retinal photoreceptor; Retinoids; Visual cycle

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IN VIVO CULTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA ROD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; CONES (RETINA); DITERPENES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MICE; RETINA; RETINALDEHYDE; VISION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 34848863641     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05801.x     Document Type: Article

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