Constitutive and AP20187-induced ret activation in photoreceptors does not protect from light-induced damage

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5199-5206

  Allocca, Mariacarmela ^a,b   Di Vicino, Umberto ^a   Petrillo, Marco ^a   Carlomagno, Francesca ^c   Domenici, Luciano ^d,e,f   Auricchio, Alberto ^a,c  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b European School of Molecular Medicine SEMM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^f SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AP 20187; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PROTEIN RET; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AP20187; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; RET PROTEIN, MOUSE; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT DAMAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RETINA; RETINA INJURY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMID; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA DEGENERATION; SIPPLE SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DEPENDOVIRUS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC VECTORS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PLASMIDS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 38449103915     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0140     Document Type: Article

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