Life history of cones in the rhodopsin-mutant p23h-3 rat: Evidence of long-term survival

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2407-2416

  Chrysostomou, Vicki ^a,b   Stone, Jonathan ^a,b,c   Valter, Krisztina ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; MIDDLE WAVELENGTH OPSIN; MIDDLE-WAVELENGTH OPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

A WAVE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THICKNESS; TRANSGENIC RAT; ANIMAL; CELL AGING; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ROD; RETINA ROD INNER SEGMENT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL AGING; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; MUTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL INNER SEGMENT; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 65549119721     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3003     Document Type: Article

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