Retinal ganglion cell loss in a rat ocular hypertension model is sectorial and involves early optic nerve axon loss

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 434-441

  Soto, Ileana ^a   Pease, Mary E ^a   Son, Janice L ^a   Shi, Xiaohai ^a   Quigley, Harry A ^a   Marsh Armstrong, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 79952272812     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5856     Document Type: Article

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