A morphological and morphometrical study of the retina in aging SAM mice

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 172-179

  Shoji, Masato ^a   Okada, Morio ^a   Ohta, Akira ^b   Higuchi, Keiichi ^b   Hosokawa, Masanori ^a,b   Honda, Yoshihito ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chest Disease Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrophy, retina; Ganglion cell loss; Morphometry; Photoreceptor cell loss; Retinal aging; Senescence Accelerated Mouse

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SENESCENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0031749141     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000055471     Document Type: Article

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