Effect of erythropoietin axotomy-induced apoptosis in rat retinal ganglion cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1514-1522

  Weishaupt, Jochen H ^a   Rohde, Gundula ^a   Pölking, Esther ^a   Siren, Anna Leena ^a   Ehrenreich, Hannelore ^a   Bähr, Mathias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; AKT1 PROTEIN, RAT; CASP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CASP3 PROTEIN, RAT; CASPASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENDRITE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITREOUS BODY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXOTOMY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OPTIC NERVE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ERYTHROPOIETIN; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 2442658142     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1039     Document Type: Article

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