Long-term morphometric stabilization of regenerating retinal ganglion cells in the adult rat

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-139

  Chiwitt, Carolin ^a   Prokosch, Verena ^a   Seeger, Johannes ^c   Thanos, Solon ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

fluorescent dyes; grafting; optic nerve injury; regeneration; Retina

Indexed keywords

IODIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79959238933     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2011-0586     Document Type: Article

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