Melanopsin is expressed in PACAP-containing retinal ganglion cells of the human retinohypothalamic tract

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4202-4209

  Hannibal, Jens ^a   Hindersson, Peter ^a   Østergaard, Jens ^a,b   Georg, Birgitte ^a,b   Heegaard, Steffen ^b   Larsen, Philip Just ^c   Fabrenkrug, Jan ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rheoscience A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; MELANOPSIN;

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE PROJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; OPSIN; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RABBITS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 6944235845     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0313     Document Type: Article

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