Laser induced photoreceptor damage and recovery in the high numerical aperture eye of the garter snake

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 486-493

  Zwick, H ^a   Edsall, P ^a   Stuck, B E ^a   Wood, E ^a   Elliott, R ^b   Cheramie, R ^b   Hacker, H ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Garter snake; In vivo imaging; Leukocytes; Neural plasticity; Numerical aperture; Photoreceptor damage; Photoreceptors; Recovery processes; Small eye

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA INJURY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; COLUBRIDAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASERS; LEUKOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38749142891     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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