Depression of retinal glutamate transporter function leads to elevated intravitreal glutamate levels and ganglion cell death

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3615-3621

  Vorwerk, C K ^a   Naskar, R ^a   Schuettauf, F ^a   Quinto, K ^a   Zurakowski, D ^a   Gochenauer, G ^a   Robinson, M B ^a   Mackler, S A ^a   Dreyer, E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMAL; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DEATH; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DNA PRIMERS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE INHIBITORS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PYRROLIDINES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0033779517     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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