Photoreceptor degeneration in the RCS rat attenuates dendritic transport and axonal regeneration of ganglion cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2318-2328

  Pavlidis, Mitrofanis ^a   Fischer, Dietmar ^a   Thanos, Solon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PERIKARYON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0033924398     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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