Response of retinal connexin43 to optic nerve injury

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3620-3629

  Chew, Shenton S L ^a   Johnson, Cameron S ^a   Green, Colin R ^a   Danesh Meyer, Helen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 80051707817     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6318     Document Type: Article

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