Microglial cells invade the outer retina as photoreceptors degenerate in Royal College of Surgeons rats

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 196-203

  Roque, Rouel S ^a   Imperial, Christopher J ^a   Caldwell, Ruth B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ED2; macrophages; microglia; phosphotyrosine; photoreceptors; rat retina

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL DEATH; CHEMOTAXIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE-1 ANTIGEN; NEUROGLIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PHOTORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0030027848     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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