Retinal degeneration and failure of photoreceptor outer segment formation in mice with targeted deletion of the Joubert syndrome gene, Ahi1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 8759-8768

  Westfall, Jennifer E ^a   Hoyt, Carlton ^a   Liu, Qin ^b   Hsiao, Yi Chun ^a,d   Pierce, Eric A ^b   Page McCaw, Patrick S ^a,c   Ferland, Russell J ^a,d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c New York Neural Stem Cell Institute   (United States)

^d ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABELSON HELPER INTEGRATION SITE 1 PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; GAMMA TUBULIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; OPSIN; RAB PROTEIN; RAB8A PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; TRANSDUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AHI 1 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JOUBERT SYNDROME; KINETOSOME; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CILIA; EYE PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; SYNDROME; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77954403561     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5229-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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