Differential contribution of rod and cone circadian clocks in driving retinal melatonin rhythms in Xenopus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Hayasaka, Naoto ^a   LaRue, Silvia I ^a   Green, Carla B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MELATONIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; GENOTYPE; LENS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; TRANSGENICS; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENOTYPE; MELATONIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TRANSGENES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 78650886249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015599     Document Type: Article

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