Photobiomodulation protects the retina from light-induced photoreceptor degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3582-3592

  Albarracin, Rizalyn ^a,b   Eells, Janis ^c   Valter, Krisztina ^a,b,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOMODULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA DEGENERATION; STRESS; ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOTHERAPY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; AIF1 PROTEIN, RAT; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHOTOTHERAPY; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051721925     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6664     Document Type: Article

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