Retinal Light Damage vs. Normal Aging of Rats: Altered Morphology, Intermediate Filament Expression, and Nuclear Organization of Müller (Glial) Cells

Journal of Brain Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 459-470

  Grosche, Jens ^a   Grimm, Diana ^a   Clemens, Norbert ^b   Reichenbach, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INTERSAN Inst F Pharmazeut K   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bulk dye filling; Free radical scavengers; Glia; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Immunocytochemistry; Morphometry; Retinal light damage; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT 761; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; PLANT EXTRACT; SCAVENGER;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME NOR; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GINKGO BILOBA; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; RETINA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GINKGO BILOBA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PHOTORECEPTORS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RETINA;

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