Caspase-1 ablation protects photoreceptors in a model of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5181-5190

  Samardzija, Marijana ^a   Wenzel, Andreas ^a   Thiersch, Markus ^a   Frigg, Rico ^a   Remé, Charlotte ^a   Grimm, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR TYPE I; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CCL2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C3H MOUSE; DOMINANT GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 1; CHEMOKINE CCL2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, DOMINANT; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1 TYPE I; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34248200927     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0556     Document Type: Article

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