Topographical characterization of cone photoreceptors and the area centralis of the canine retina

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 2518-2527

  Mowat, Freya M ^a   Petersen Jones, Simon M ^b   Williamson, Helen ^c   Williams, David L ^c   Luthert, Philip J ^a   Ali, Robin R ^a   Bainbridge, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA CENTRALIS CONE DENSITY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL RETINA CONE DENSITY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CONE OPSINS; DOGS; MACULA LUTEA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 58049204418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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