Cellular and vascular changes in the retina of neonatal rats after an acute exposure to hypoxia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5364-5374

  Kaur, Charanjit ^a,b   Sivakumar, Viswanathan ^a   Foulds, Wallace S ^a,b,c   Luu, Chi D ^a,b,d   Ling, Eng Ang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE ISOTHIONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOCHONDRION; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MELATONIN; NEUROGLIA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 78649398520     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3552     Document Type: Article

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