Article Information
- Received February 22, 2007
- Revision received May 21, 2007
- Accepted May 23, 2007
- First published July 4, 2007.
- Version of record published July 4, 2007.
Author Information
- Juliette Johnson1,2,5,
- Robert T. Fremeau Jr2,4,5,
- Jacque L. Duncan1,
- René C. Rentería1,2,5,
- Haidong Yang1,
- Zhaolin Hua2,4,5,
- Xiaorong Liu1,2,5,
- Matthew M. LaVail1,3,
- Robert H. Edwards2,4,5, and
- David R. Copenhagen1,2,5
- Departments of 1Ophthalmology,
- 2Physiology,
- 3Anatomy, and
- 4Neurology, and
- 5Program in Neurosciences, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94143
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Juliette Johnson, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 10 Kirkham Street, Room K-140, San Francisco, CA 94143-0730. johnsonj{at}vision.ucsf.edu
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Disclosures
- Received February 22, 2007.
- Revision received May 21, 2007.
- Accepted May 23, 2007.
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This work was supported primarily by grants from the National Institutes of Health (D.R.C., R.H.E., J.J., J.L.D.). Additional support was provided by a core grant from National Eye Institute and by That Man May See (D.R.C.), Research to Prevent Blindness (D.R.C., J.L.D., M.M.L.), Foundation Fighting Blindness (J.L.D., M.M.L.), Bernard A. Newcomb Macular Degeneration Fund (J.L.D.), and Knights Templar Eye Foundation (J.J., X.L.). We thank members of the Copenhagen and Krizaj laboratories and Dr. Russell Van Gelder for valuable discussions during the course of this study. We thank Drs. Rebecca Seal, Lawrence Tecott, Louis Ptacek, Quasar Padiath, and Andreas Kadavanich for help with the circadian entrainment studies; Ann Schreiber, Vincent Wu, Carolyn Graybeal, and Ivy Hsieh for their technical assistance; Dr. Travis Porco for helpful guidance on statistical analysis; and Dr. Ignacio Provencio for the melanopsin antibody.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Juliette Johnson, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 10 Kirkham Street, Room K-140, San Francisco, CA 94143-0730. johnsonj{at}vision.ucsf.edu
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