Chloroquine-induced retinopathy in the rat. Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study

Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1225-1238

  Abdel Kader, Dina H ^a   El Din Sayed, Safinaz Salah ^a   El Ghamrawy, Tarek A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Amyloid precursor protein (APP); Bipolan cells; Chloroquine; Ganglion; Immunohistochemistry; Retinopathy; Ultrastructural study

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GANGLION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINOPATHY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 37349037519     PISSN: 16824474     EISSN: 18125727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jms.2007.1225.1238     Document Type: Article

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