Light treatment enhances photoreceptor survival in dystrophic retinas of Royal College of Surgeons rats

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2383-2390

  Nir, Izhak ^a   Liu, Changdong ^b   Wen, Rong ^b  

^a Univ of Texas Health Science Center ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DYSTROPHY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL SURVIVAL; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHOTOTHERAPY; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032843501     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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