Calcium overload triggers rod photoreceptor apoptotic cell death in chemical-induced and inherited retinal degenerations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 893, Issue , 1999, Pages 282-285

  Fox, Donald A ^a,b   Poblenz, Ann T ^a   He, Lihua ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CASPASE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOCHROME C; DILTIAZEM; DNA FRAGMENT; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROTECTION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME RELEASE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033389181     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07837.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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