Retinal ganglion cell numbers and delayed retinal ganglion cell death in the P23H rat retina

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 800-810

  García Ayuso, Diego ^a   Salinas Navarro, Manuel ^a   Agudo, Marta ^b   Cuenca, Nicolás ^c   Pinilla, Isabel ^d   Vidal Sanz, Manuel ^a   Villegas Pérez, María P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axonal compression; Inherited retinal degeneration; Photoreceptor; Retinal dystrophy; Retinal ganglion cell; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Retinal vessels; Rhodopsin mutation

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHODOPSIN; STILBAMIDINES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A;

EID: 78649479385     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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