Anatomical changes in the primary visual cortex of the congenitally blind Crx-/- mouse

Neuroscience

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 886-898

  Goldshmit, Y ^a   Galley, S ^b   Foo, D ^a   Sernagor, E ^b   Bourne, J A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calcium binding proteins; mutant; neurofilament; photoreceptor; retinal dystrophy; visual development

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN; PARVALBUMIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MOUSE; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PARVALBUMINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77249114089     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.12.039     Document Type: Article

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