Ischemia-Induced Changes of AMPA-Type Glutamate Receptor Subunit Expression Pattern in the Rat Retina: A Real-Time Quantitative PCR Study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 330-341

  Dijk, Frederike ^a,b   Kraal Muller, Elza ^a   Kamphuis, Willem ^a  

^a Grad Sch for Neurosci Amsterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 3; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 4; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 6; MESSENGER RNA; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN VARIANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPERFUSION; RETINA ISCHEMIA; SPLICE VARIANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PARVALBUMINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0347988268     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0285     Document Type: Article

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