Photopic ERG negative response from amacrine cell signaling in RCS rat retinal degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 442-452

  Machida, Shigeki ^a   Raz Prag, Dorit ^b   Fariss, Robert N ^c   Sieving, Paul A ^c   Bush, Ronald A ^b  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HISTIDINE; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROLINE; RHODOPSIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; N-METHYL-DL-ASPARTIC ACID; POTASSIUM INWARDLY RECTIFYING CHANNEL, SUBFAMILY J, MEMBER 10; POTASSIUM INWARDLY-RECTIFYING CHANNEL, SUBFAMILY J, MEMBER 10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; LIGHT; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL COUNT; DOPAMINE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; N-METHYLASPARTATE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 39549086641     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0291     Document Type: Article

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