Number and distribution of mouse retinal cone photoreceptors: Differences between an albino (Swiss) and a pigmented (C57/BL6) strain

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Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ortiń Martínez, Arturo ^a,b   Nadal Nicolás, Francisco M ^a   Jimeńez López, Manuel ^a,b   Alburquerque Béjar, Juan J ^a   Nieto Loṕez, Leticia ^a,b   Garcia Ayuso, Diego ^a,b   Villegas Pérez, Maria P ^a,b   Vidal Sanz, Manuel ^a,b   Agudo Barriuso, Marta ^a  

^a Centro de Investigación Biosanitaria en Red de Salud Mental Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria Arrixaca   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE OPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; OPSIN; POU4F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENSITY GRADIENT; FEMALE; IMMUNODETECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWISS WEBSTER MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OPSINS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A;

EID: 84904369638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102392     Document Type: Article

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