Abnormalities in rod photoreceptors, amacrine cells, and horizontal cells in human retinas with retinitis pigmentosa

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-223

  Fariss, Robert N ^a   Li, Zong Yi ^a   Milam, Ann H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALBINDIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); SYNAPTIC VESICLES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0033960799     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(99)00401-8     Document Type: Article

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