Mouse models of retinal ganglion cell death and glaucoma

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 816-824

  McKinnon, Stuart J ^a   Schlamp, Cassandra L ^b   Nickells, Robert W ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

animal models; DBA 2J mouse glaucoma; experimental glaucoma; optic nerve disease; retinal ganglion cell; transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; CELL DEATH; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE TARGETING; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 64249106218     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.12.002     Document Type: Review

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