Alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonist protects retinal function after acute retinal ischemic injury in the rat

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-185

  Lai, Ronald K ^a   Chun, Teresa ^a   Hasson, Dain ^a   Lee, Steve ^a   Mehrbod, Farrokh ^a   Wheeler, Larry ^a  

^a ALLERGAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha 2 adrenoceptor agonist; Neuroprotection; Retinal function; Retinal ischemia; Survival signal

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BRIMONIDINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN KINASE B; YOHIMBINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA ISCHEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ISCHEMIA; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036489583     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0952523802191152     Document Type: Article

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