Article
Accumulation of calcium in degenerating photoreceptors of several Drosophila mutants.
Visual neuroscience - 1 Jan 2000
Sahly I, Schröder W H, Zierold K, Minke B
Abstract excerpt
The hypothesis that a large, possibly toxic, increase in cellular calcium accompanies photoreceptor cell degeneration in several different Drosophila mutants was tested. The calcium content of wild type and mutant photoreceptors of Drosophila was measured using rapid freezing of the eyes and ener...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium
- Cryoultramicrotomy
- Dark Adaptation
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Electron Probe Microanalysis
- Light
- Mutation
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate
- Retinal Degeneration