GDNF stimulates rod photoreceptors and dopaminergic amacrine cells in chicken retinal reaggregates

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5306-5314

  Volpert, Katja N ^a   Rothermel, Andrée ^a,b   Layer, Paul G ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DOPAMINE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA ROD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CHICK EMBRYO; DOWN-REGULATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOPSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RODS (RETINA); SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TRANSFECTION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34548697763     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0313     Document Type: Article

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