Molecular steps involved in light-induced oxidative damage to retinal rods

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2421-2427

  Demontis, Gian Carlo ^a   Longoni, Biancamaria ^a   Marchiafava, Pier Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATCH CLAMP; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RANA PIPIENS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODAMINES; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 0036293149     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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