Labelling and targeted ablation of specific bipolar cell types in the zebrafish retina

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 107-

  Zhao, Xiao Feng ^a,b   Ellingsen, Staale ^a,c   Fjose, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROREDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; RETINA; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE NET; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 70349577114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-107     Document Type: Article

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