Preconditioning with bright light evokes a protective response against light damage in the rat retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1337-1344

  Liu, Changdong ^a   Peng, Min ^b   Laties, Alan M ^b   Wen, Rong ^a  

^a Departments of Ophthalmology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bFGF; CNTF; Degeneration; Erk; Light damage; Muller cell; Photoreceptor; Rat; Retina

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEGENERATION; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032520132     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-04-01337.1998     Document Type: Article

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