Mechanisms of acute axonal degeneration in the optic nerve in vivo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 6064-6069

  Knöferle, Johanna ^a   Koch, Jan C ^a   Ostendorf, Thomas ^a   Michel, Uwe ^a   Planchamp, Véronique ^a   Vutova, Polya ^a   Tönges, Lars ^a   Stadelmann, Christine ^a,b   Brück, Wolfgang ^a,b   Bähr, Mathias ^a,b   Lingor, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Calcium influx; CNS trauma; Live imaging

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; AXONS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DEPENDOVIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77950534568     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909794107     Document Type: Article

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