Muller cell protection of rat retinal ganglion cells from glutamate and nitric oxide neurotoxicity

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3444-3450

  Kawasaki, A ^a   Otori, Y ^a   Barnstable, C J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYASPARTIC ACID; CALCEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; 3,3 BIS(2 AMINOETHYL) 1 HYDROXY 2 OXOTRIAZENE; 3-HYDROXYASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; GLAUCOMA; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIA; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROGLIA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0033623391     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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