Changes in cholinergic amacrine cells after rodent anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (rAION)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 904-910

  Bernstein, Steven L ^a   Guo, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; ACTIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POU4F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A;

EID: 79953269942     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5247     Document Type: Article

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