Severity of infantile nystagmus syndrome-like ocular motor phenotype is linked to the extent of the underlying optic nerve projection defect in zebrafish belladonna mutant

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 18079-18086

  Huber Reggi, Sabina P ^a,c   Chen, Chien Cheng ^b,c   Grimm, Lea ^a   Straumann, Dominik ^a,b   Neuhauss, Stephan C F ^a   Huang, Melody Ying Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Life Science Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BELLADONNA GENE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL NYSTAGMUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE; LARVA; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LARVA; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NYSTAGMUS, CONGENITAL; OPTIC NERVE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84871017785     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4378-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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