P-Rex2, a Rac-guanine nucleotide exchange factor, is expressed selectively in ribbon synaptic terminals of the mouse retina

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sherry, David M ^a,b   Blackburn, Bradley A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Bipolar cell; Cytoskeleton; GEF; Photoreceptor; Rac GTPase

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL(3,4,5)TRISPHOSPHATE DEPENDENT RAC EXCHANGER 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSKELETON; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; EYE PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; LECTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RETINA; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84880031100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-70     Document Type: Article

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