Intrinsic phototransduction persists in melanopsin-expressing ganglion cells lacking diacylglycerol-sensitive TRPC subunits

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 856-867

  Perez Leighton, Claudio E ^a   Schmidt, Tiffany M ^a   Abramowitz, Joel ^b   Birnbaumer, Lutz ^b   Kofuji, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian entrainment; Intrinsically photosensitive ganglion cell; Mouse; Retina

Indexed keywords

DIACYLGLYCEROL; MELANOPSIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 3; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 6; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 7;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DIGLYCERIDES; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS; TRPC CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 79952440062     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07583.x     Document Type: Article

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