Fourier domain optical coherence tomography as a noninvasive means for in vivo detection of retinal degeneration in Xenopus laevis tadpoles

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1066-1070

  Lee, Damian C ^a   Xu, Jing ^b   Sarunic, Marinko V ^b   Moritz, Orson L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHAGOSOME; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; RETINA THICKNESS; TADPOLE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; LARVA; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

CASPASE 9; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CASPASE 9; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LARVA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHAGOSOMES; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RHODOPSIN; ROD CELL OUTER SEGMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77449143587     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4260     Document Type: Article

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