The relationship between full field electroretinogram and perimetry-like visual thresholds in RCS rats during photoreceptor degeneration and rescue by cell transplants

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-18

  Sauve Y ^a   Lu, B ^a   Lund, R D ^a  

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

Author keywords

ERG; Retinal degeneration; Superior colliculus; Transplantation; Visual field perimetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIMETRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; RETINA DEGENERATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0242289520     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.08.015     Document Type: Article

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