Remaining rod activity mediates visual behavior in adult rpe65 -/- mice

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6835-6842

  Cachafeiro, Maité ^a   Bemelmans, Alexis Pierre ^a   Canola, Kriss ^a   Pignat, Vérène ^a   Crippa, Sylvain Vincent ^a   Kostic, Corinne ^a   Arsenijevic, Yvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOUSE; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL REFLEX; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLOR VISION; EYE PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NIGHT VISION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSDUCIN; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79751516595     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3870     Document Type: Article

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