Ocular hypertension impairs optic nerve axonal transport leading to progressive retinal ganglion cell degeneration

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-183

  Salinas Navarro, Manuel ^a   Alarcón Martínez, Luis ^a   Valiente Soriano, Francisco J ^a   Jiménez López, Manuel ^a   Mayor Torroglosa, Sergio ^a   Avilés Trigueros, Marcelino ^a   Villegas Pérez, María Paz ^a   Vidal Sanz, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

adult albino rat retinal ganglion cells; Brn3a; dextran tetramethylrhodamine; fluorescent tracers; fluorogold; neuronal degeneration; ocular hypertension; phosphorilated neurofilament heavy chain; retrograde axonal transport; RT97

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LASER COAGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CELL COUNT; DEXTRANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHODAMINES; STILBAMIDINES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 70749091291     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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