Increased sensitivity to retinal light damage in aquaporin-4 knockout mice

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-122

  Yuan, Songtao ^a,b   Zhang, Wenjing ^a,b   Ding, Jianhua ^b   Yao, Jin ^a   Jiang, Qin ^a   Hu, Gang ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Modern Pathogen Biology   (China)

Author keywords

AQP4; electroretinography; light damage; M ller cell; photoreceptor degeneration

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; LIGHT DAMAGE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; THICKNESS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RADIATION INJURIES; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 67349108037     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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