A direct and melanopsin-dependent fetal light response regulates mouse eye development

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7436, 2013, Pages 243-246

  Rao, Sujata ^a   Chun, Christina ^b   Fan, Jieqing ^a   Kofron, J Matthew ^a   Yang, Michael B ^a,c   Hegde, Rashmi S ^a   Ferrara, Napoleone ^d   Copenhagen, David R ^b   Lang, Richard A ^a,c  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; OPN4 PROTEIN; OPSIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

DATA SET; EMBRYO; EYE; HYPOXIA; LIGHT EFFECT; NEUROLOGY; PIGMENT; RODENT; VISION;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HYPOXIA; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL HYPOXIA; EYE; FEMALE; FETUS; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHOTONS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL NEURONS; ROD OPSINS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

MUS;

EID: 84873732060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11823     Document Type: Article

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