A novel isoform of acetylcholinesterase exacerbates photoreceptors death after photic stress

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1290-1297

  Kehat, Rinat ^a,b   Zemel, Esther ^a   Cuenca, Nicolas ^c   Evron, Tama ^d   Toiber, Debra ^d   Loewenstein, Anat ^e   Soreq, Hermona ^d   Perlman, Ido ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; MONARSEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INJURY; RETINA NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DNA, ANTISENSE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34047267318     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0847     Document Type: Article

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