Tissue oxygen during a critical developmental period controls the death and survival of photoreceptors

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1667-1677

  Maslim, Juliani ^a   Valter, Krisztina ^a   Egensperger, Rupert ^b   Holländer, Horstmar ^b   Stone, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical period; Oxygen; Retina; Retinal dystrophy; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETIOLOGY; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; CATS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTORECEPTORS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0030826430     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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