Ophthalmopathology in rats with MBP-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 249, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1009-1020

  Gramlich, Oliver W ^a   Joachim, Stephanie C ^b   Gottschling, Philip F ^a   Laspas, Panagoitis ^a   Cuny, Clemens S ^a   Pfeiffer, Norbert ^a   Grus, Franz H ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activated microglia; Antibody reactivity; EAE; IgG deposition; MS; Myelin basic protein; Optic neuritis; Retinal ganglion cell loss

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOANTIBODIES; CELL COUNT; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROGLIA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 79959705739     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1633-9     Document Type: Article

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