Ablation of retinal horizontal cells from adult mice leads to rod degeneration and remodeling in the outer retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 10713-10724

  Janssen Bienhold, Ulrike ^b   Sonntag, Stephan ^a   Dedek, Karin ^b   Dorgau, Birthe ^b   Schultz, Konrad ^b   Schmidt, Karl Friedrich ^c   Cimiotti, Kerstin ^a   Weiler, Reto ^b   Löwel, Siegrid ^c   Willecke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARRESTIN; CONNEXINS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANYLATE KINASE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POISONS; PROTEIN KINASE C-ALPHA; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL HORIZONTAL CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84864486953     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0442-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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