PUBLICATION
Ribbon Synapses: Anchors away for a Fishy Tale
- Authors
- Lagnado, L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-050209-8
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Current biology : CB 15(3): R102-105 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Lagnado, Leon
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Exocytosis/physiology
- Hearing/physiology
- Mutation/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/physiology
- Neurons, Afferent/cytology*
- Neurons, Afferent/physiology
- Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/genetics
- Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/physiology
- Retina/physiology*
- Signal Transduction/physiology*
- Synapses/physiology*
- Synaptic Transmission/physiology*
- Vision, Ocular/physiology
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 15694286 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Citation
Lagnado, L. (2005) Ribbon Synapses: Anchors away for a Fishy Tale. Current biology : CB. 15(3):R102-105.
Abstract
Genetic screens in flies and worms have long been a powerful way of identifying proteins that regulate synaptic transmission. A recent study of ribbon synapses in the retina of zebrafish is an excellent example of how this approach can now be applied to a vertebrate species.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping