Müller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 8287-8292

  Franze, Kristian ^a   Grosche, Jens ^a,b   Skatchkov, Serguei N ^c   Schinkinger, Stefan ^a   Foja, Christian ^a   Schild, Detlev ^d   Uckermann, Ortrud ^a   Travis, Kort ^a   Reichenbach, Andreas ^a   Guck, Jochen ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiberoptic plate; Glial cells; Light guides; Optical trap; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; GUINEA PIG; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTOMETRY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; LASER; LIGHT; MALE; METABOLISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; LASERS; LIGHT; MALE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINA; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 34347268138     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611180104     Document Type: Article

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