Negative and positive masking responses to light in retinal degenerate slow (rds/rds) mice during aging

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1270-1273

  Mrosovsky, N ^a   Thompson, Stewart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Locomotion; Masking; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; LOCOMOTION; MASKING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 42749092490     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

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