Classical complement activation and acquired immune response pathways are not essential for retinal degeneration in the rd1 mouse

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-91

  Rohrer, Bärbel ^a   Demos, Christina ^a   Frigg, Rico ^b   Grimm, Christian ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

complement system; immune response; Rag1 ; rd1; retinal degeneration; SCID

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; COMPLEMENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, CLASSICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, RAG-1; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33751315254     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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