Non-Image-Forming Light Driven Functions Are Preserved in a Mouse Model of Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Perganta, Georgia ^a   Barnard, Alun R ^a   Katti, Christiana ^a   Vachtsevanos, Athanasios ^a   Douglas, Ron H ^b   MacLaren, Robert E ^a,c   Votruba, Marcela ^d   Sekaran, Sumathi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT OPTIC ATROPHY; CELL STRUCTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MONITORING; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NON IMAGE FORMING LIGHT DRIVEN FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PUPIL REFLEX; PUPILLOMETRY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RUNNING; SLEEP INDUCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; PUPIL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS; SLEEP;

EID: 84873694241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056350     Document Type: Article

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