Pineal photoreceptor cells are required for maintaining the circadian rhythms of behavioral visual sensitivity in zebrafish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Li, Xinle ^a,b   Montgomery, Jake ^a   Cheng, Wesley ^a   Noh, Jung Hyun ^a   Hyde, David R ^a   Li, Lei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; NITROREDUCTASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PINEAL BODY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PINEAL GLAND; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864007809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040508     Document Type: Article

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