Synucleins in glaucoma: Implication of γ-synuclein in glaucomatous alterations in the optic nerve

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-106

  Surgucheva, Irina ^a   McMahan, Belinda ^b   Ahmed, Farid ^a   Tomarev, Stanislav ^b   Wax, Martin B ^a   Surguchov, Andrei ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

synuclein; Astrocytes; Cell models; Centrosomes; Nucleus; Optic nerve

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; BETA SYNUCLEIN; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CAUTERIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNUCLEINS;

EID: 0036221254     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10198     Document Type: Article

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