BDNF is upregulated by postnatal development and visual experience: Quantitative and immunohistochemical analyses of BDNF in the rat retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3211-3218

  Seki, Masaaki ^a,b   Nawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Fukuchi, Takeo ^b   Abe, Haruki ^b   Takei, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUELLER CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; VISION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; UP-REGULATION; VISION;

EID: 0037562428     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1089     Document Type: Article

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