Effect of HCN channel inhibition on retinal morphology and function in normal and dystrophic rodents

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1016-1023

  della Santina, Luca ^a   Bouly, Muriel ^b   Asta, Antonella ^a   Demontis, Gian Carlo ^a   Cervetto, Luigi ^a   Gargini, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; IVABRADINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; BENZAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CATION CHANNEL; HYPERPOLARIZATION-ACTIVATED CATION CHANNEL; OPSIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

A WAVE; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEART RATE; INFUSION PUMP; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NICK END LABELING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; RETINA;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BENZAZEPINES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEART RATE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPSINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 77449104982     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3680     Document Type: Article

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