Expressions of rod and cone photoreceptor-like proteins in human epidermis

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 567-570

  Tsutsumi, Moe ^a   Ikeyama, Kazuyuki ^a   Denda, Sumiko ^a   Nakanishi, Jotaro ^a   Fuziwara, Shigeyoshi ^a   Aoki, Hirofumi ^a   Denda, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a SHISEIDO RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Keratinocyte; Photoreceptor; Visible light

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTOR LIKE PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; VISION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELLS, CULTURED; CONE OPSINS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, HAIRLESS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOPSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; ROD OPSINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66149091561     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.00851.x     Document Type: Article

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