Retinal remodeling in the Tg P347L rabbit, a large-eye model of retinal degeneration

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 519, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2713-2733

  Jones, Bryan William ^a   Kondo, Mineo ^b   Terasaki, Hiroko ^b   Brock Watt, Carl ^a   Rapp, Kevin ^a   Anderson, James ^a   Lin, Yanhua ^a   Victoria Shaw, Marguerite ^a   Yang, Jia Hui ^a   Edward Marc, Robert ^a  

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

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational molecular phenotyping; Confocal microscopy; Electron microscopy; Electroretinogram; Human; Light microscopy; Neural remodeling; Rabbit; Retinal degeneration; Retinal remodeling; Retinitis pigmentosa; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; ENZYME ANTIBODY; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; HAPTEN ANTIBODY; RHODOPSIN; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL METABOLISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; METABOLIC STRESS; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; HUMANS; MALE; OPSINS; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TAURINE;

EID: 79960807917     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22703     Document Type: Article

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