Axotomy-induced retinal ganglion cell death in adult mice: Quantitative and topographic time course analyses

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 377-387

  Galindo Romero, C ^a   Aviles Trigueros M ^a   Jimenez Lopez M ^a   Valiente Soriano, F J ^a   Salinas Navarro, M ^a   Nadal Nicolas F ^a,b   Villegas Perez M P ^a   Vidal Sanz, M ^a   Agudo Barriuso, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automated quantification; BRN3A; Optic nerve; Spatial distribution; Tracing; Transection

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRAORBITAL NERVE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OPTIC NERVE; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A;

EID: 79955156596     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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