Antisense knockdown of GLAST, a glial glutamate transporter, compromises retinal function

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 585-591

  Barnett, Nigel Louis ^a   Pow, David Vaughan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; NEUROGLIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINA;

EID: 0033952891     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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