Apoptotic mechanisms within the retina in Staphylococcus epidermidis experimental endophthalmitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 667-674

  Pharmakakis, Nikolaos M ^a,d   Petropoulos, Ioannis K ^b   Georgakopoulos, Constantine D ^a   Vantzou, Chrysoula V ^a   Anastassiou, Evangelos D ^a   Mavropoulos, Anestis ^c   Zolota, Vassiliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Endophthalmitis; Retina; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STAINING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 64449084175     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0996-z     Document Type: Article

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