Neurotrophic factors cause activation of intracellular signaling pathways in Muller cells and other cells of the inner retina, but not photoreceptors

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 927-936

  Wahlin, Karl J ^b   Campochiaro, Peter A ^b   Zack, Donald J ^b   Adler, Ruben ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INJECTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEUROGLIA; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0001303249     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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