Changes in the inner and outer retinal layers after acute increase of the intraocular pressure in adult albino Swiss mice

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-285

  Cuenca, Nicolás ^a   Pinilla, Isabel ^b   Fernández Sánchez, Laura ^a   Salinas Navarro, Manuel ^c   Alarcón Martínez, Luis ^c   Avilés Trigueros, Marcelino ^c   de la Villa, Pedro ^d   Miralles de Imperial, Jaime ^c   Villegas Pérez, Maria Paz ^c   Vidal Sanz, Manuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adult albino mice; Bipolar cells; ERG; Immunohistochemistry; Ocular hypertension; Photoreceptors

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; RECOVERIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PROTEIN KINASE C-ALPHA; RECOVERIN; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL INNER SEGMENT; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 77954956447     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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