Immunotoxin-induced ablation of melanopsin retinal ganglion cells in a non-murine mammalian model

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 516, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-140

  Ingham, Elizabeth S ^a   Günhan, Emine ^a   Fuller, Patrick M ^b   Fuller, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue light; Circadian; Pupillary light reflex; Rat; Saporin; SCN

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOTOXIN; MELANOPSIN; MELANOPSIN POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SAPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TARGET CELL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; ROD OPSINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69449086813     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22103     Document Type: Article

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