Cone-rod dependence in the rat retina: Variation with the rate of rod damage

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3017-3023

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

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; OPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CONE; RETINA INJURY; RETINA OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; RETINA ROD; THICKNESS; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA DEGENERATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSGENIC RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIGHT; OPSINS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 66849124213     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3004     Document Type: Article

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