Light-evoked responses of the retinal pigment epithelium: Changes accompanying photoreceptor loss in the mouse

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 391-402

  Samuels, Ivy S ^a,b   Sturgill, Gwen M ^a,b   Grossman, Gregory H ^b   Rayborn, Mary E ^b   Hollyfield, Joe G ^b,c   Peachey, Neal S ^a,b,c  

^a LSCDVAMC   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B WAVE; C WAVE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LIGHT; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 77954448094     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00088.2010     Document Type: Article

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