Retinal light damage in rats with altered levels of rod outer segment docosahexaenoate

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2243-2257

  Organisciak, Daniel T ^a   Darrow, Ruth M ^a   Jiang, Yih Ling ^a   Blanks, Janet C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

docosahexaenoate; light damage; rat; retina; rod outer segment

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; LINSEED OIL; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; LIGHT DAMAGE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANIMALS; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; DNA; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTORECEPTORS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS;

EID: 0029816791     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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