Selective photoreceptor damage in albino rats using continuous blue light. A protocol useful for retinal degeneration and transplantation research

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 238, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 599-607

  Seiler, Magdalene J ^a   Liu, Olivia L ^a   Cooper, Nigel G F ^a   Callahan, Tricia L ^b   Petry, Heywood M ^a,b   Aramant, Robert B ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; LIGHT DAMAGE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0033931510     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170000143     Document Type: Article

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