Cone degeneration following rod ablation in a reversible model of retinal degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 364-373

  Choi, Rene Y ^a,b   Engbretson, Gustav A ^a,c   Solessio, Eduardo C ^a   Jones, Georgette A ^a   Coughlin, Adam ^a   Aleksic, Ilija ^a   Zuber, Michael E ^a,b  

^a Departments of 1Ophthalmology   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROREDUCTASE; RHODOPSIN; CALBINDIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; NFSA PROTEIN, E COLI;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE DEGENERATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; TADPOLE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GLIA; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROGLIA; NITROREDUCTASES; REGENERATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISION DISORDERS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79952261758     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5347     Document Type: Article

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