Correlation between retinal ganglion cell death and chronically developing inherited glaucoma in a new rat mutant

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-129

  Thanos, Solon ^a   Naskar, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

ganglion cell; glaucoma; intraocular pressure; mutant; rat; retina

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IODINE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; PARAFFIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CILIARY BODY; CILIARY DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FROZEN SECTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GLAUCOMA; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CILIARY BODY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OPTIC NERVE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 2942527166     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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