Neuroprotective effect of upregulated sonic hedgehog in retinal ganglion cells following chronic ocular hypertension

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2987-2992

  Wu, Jihong ^a   Zhang, Shenghai ^a   Sun, Xinghuai ^b,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EYE AND ENT HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLI PROTEIN, RAT; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; SMO PROTEIN, RAT; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN, RAT; VERATRUM ALKALOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS;

EID: 77953282315     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4151     Document Type: Article

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