Immunohistochemical localization of CNTFRα in adult mouse retina and optic nerve following intraorbital nerve crush: Evidence for the axonal loss of a trophic factor receptor after injury

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 500, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 384-400

  Miotke, Jill A ^a   MacLennan, A John ^b   Meyer, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Axotomy; CNS; CNTF; Oligodendrocytes; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; GLIAL SCARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERFASCICULAR GLIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCAR FORMATION; ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DOWN REGULATION; GLIOSIS; METABOLISM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; ORBIT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL DEATH; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORBIT; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845572631     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21174     Document Type: Article

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