Zebrafish Tg(7.2mab21l2:EGFP)ucd2 transgenics reveal a unique population of retinal Amacrine cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1613-1621

  Cederlund, Maria L ^a   Morrissey, Maria E ^a   Baden, Tom ^b   Scholz, Dimitri ^a   Vendrell, Victor ^a   Lagnado, Leon ^b   Connaughton, Victoria P ^c   Kennedy, Breandán N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAB21L2 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PARVALBUMINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 79952644760     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5376     Document Type: Article

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