Loss of photic entrainment at low illuminances in rats with acute photoreceptor degeneration

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1527-1536

  Boudard, Domitille L ^a   Mendoza, Jorge ^a   Hicks, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Melanopsin; N methyl N nitrosourea; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; LIGHTING; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; OPSINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 70350225703     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06935.x     Document Type: Article

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