Photoreceptor dystrophy in the RCS rat: Roles of oxygen, debris, and bFGF

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2427-2442

  Valter, Krisztina ^a   Maslim, Juliani ^a   Bowers, Felicity ^a   Stone, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DYSTROPHY;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CELL DEATH; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HYPEROXIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; OXYGEN; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031762302     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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