TRPV1 receptors are involved in protein nitration and Müller cell reaction in the acutely axotomized rat retina

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 755-768

  Leonelli, Mauro ^a   Martins, Daniel O ^a   Britto, Luiz R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

M ller cells; Nitric oxide; Optic nerve axotomy; Protein nitration; Rat retina; Retinal ganglion cells; TRPV1

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; AMINOGUANIDINE; CAPSAICIN; CAPSAZEPINE; FLUOROGOLD; PEROXYNITRITE; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUORO JADE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TRPV1 PROTEIN, RAT; TRPV1 RECEPTOR; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPLANT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NITRATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STAINING; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIA; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; NITROSATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; CAPSAICIN; CELL COUNT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NEUROGLIA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSATION; OPTIC NERVE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 78049508028     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.08.026     Document Type: Article

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