Loss of LMO4 in the retina leads to reduction of GABAergic amacrine cells and functional deficits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Duquette, Philippe M ^a   Zhou, Xun ^a   Yap, Nida Lerma ^a   MacLaren, Erik J ^a   Lu, Jesse J ^a   Wallace, Valerie A ^a,b,c   Chen, Hsiao Huei ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; PROTEIN LMO4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LMO4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COLOBOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA IMAGE; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 78049285826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013232     Document Type: Article

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