Structural correlation between the nerve fiber layer and retinal ganglion cell loss in mice with targeted disruption of the Brn3b gene

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5226-5232

  Camp, Andrew S ^a   Ruggeri, Marco ^a   Munguba, Gustavo C ^a   Tapia, Mary L ^a   John, Simon W M ^b   Bhattacharya, Sanjoy K ^a   Lee, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; POU4F2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GLAUCOMA; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DBA MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; EYE MALFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE ABNORMALITIES; GLAUCOMA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE FIBERS; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3B;

EID: 80052794107     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6307     Document Type: Article

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