Myosin VIIA is a marker for the cone accessory outer segment in zebrafish

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1777-1784

  Hodel, Corinne ^a   Niklaus, Stephanie ^a   Heidemann, Martina ^a,c   Klooster, Jan ^b   Kamermans, Maarten ^b   Biehlmaier, Oliver ^a,d   Gesemann, Matthias ^a   Neuhauss, Stephan C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accessory outer segment; Cone photoreceptor; Myosin VIIa; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MYOSIN VIIA; MYOSIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONE ACCESSORY OUTER SEGMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CONNECTING CILIUM; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RETINA CONE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; MYOSINS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84906083090     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22976     Document Type: Article

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