Topography of retinal damage in light-exposed albino rats

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-295

  Tanito, Masaki ^a,b,c   Kaidzu, Sachiko ^c   Ohira, Akihiro ^c   Anderson, Robert E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

outer nuclear layer (ONL) thickness; retinal light damage; retinal topography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA INJURY;

ANIMALS; LIGHT; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT;

EID: 51049084614     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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