Both electrical stimulation thresholds and SMI-32-immunoreactive retinal ganglion cell density correlate with age in s334ter line 3 rat retina

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2687-2697

  Chan, Leanne L H ^a   Lee, Eun Jin ^b   Humayun, Mark S ^a   Weiland, James D ^a  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Immunocytochemistry; Remodeling; Retinal degeneration; Retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; PLATINUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; LIGHT; MUTATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHODOPSIN; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 79959365249     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00619.2010     Document Type: Article

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