Mice lacking Period 1 and Period 2 circadian clock genes exhibit blue cone photoreceptor defects

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1048-1060

  Ait Hmyed, Ouafa ^a,b   Felder Schmittbuhl, Marie Paule ^a   Garcia Garrido, Marina ^c   Beck, Susanne ^c   Seide, Christina ^c   Sothilingam, Vithiyanjali ^c   Tanimoto, Naoyuki ^c   Seeliger, Mathias ^c   Bennis, Mohammed ^b   Hicks, David ^a  

^a Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives UPR3212   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Electroretinography; Immunohistochemistry; in vivo imaging; Retina

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OPN1MW PROTEIN; OPN1SW PROTEIN; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARR3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARR3 GENE; ARTICLE; BLUE CONE PHOTORECEPTOR DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPN1MW GENE; OPN1SW GENE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERIOD 1 GENE; PERIOD 2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISUAL DISORDER; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ARRESTINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP F, MEMBER 2; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84875672774     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12103     Document Type: Article

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