Microglial responses to focal lesions of the rabbit retina: Correlation with neural and macroglial reactions

GLIA

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 325-341

  Humphrey, Martin F ^a,b   Moore, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Growth factors; Macrophages; Microglia; Muller cells

Indexed keywords

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY; LASER; LASER COAGULATION; METABOLISM; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; ANIMALS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASERS; LIGHT COAGULATION; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0030130767     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1136(199604)16:4<325::AID-GLIA5>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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