In vivo imaging of microscopic structures in the rat retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5872-5879

  Geng, Ying ^a,b   Greenberg, Kenneth P ^c   Wolfe, Robert ^a   Gray, Daniel C ^d   Hunter, Jennifer J ^a   Dubra, Alfredo ^a   Flannery, John G ^c   Williams, David R ^a   Porter, Jason ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OPTOS PLC   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FLUORESCENCE ADAPTIVE OPTICS SCANNING OPHTHALMOSCOPE; IMAGING; IN VIVO IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; CAPILLARY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LASER; METABOLISM; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAPILLARIES; DENDRITES; DEPENDOVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 73349096630     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3675     Document Type: Article

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