The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation in homocysteine-induced death of retinal ganglion cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5515-5524

  Ganapathy, Preethi S ^a   White, Richard E ^a   Ha, Yonju ^a   Renee Bozard, B ^a   McNeil, Paul L ^a   William Caldwell, R ^a   Kumar, Sanjiv ^a   Black, Stephen M ^a   Smith, Sylvia B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLYCINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXYNITRITE; SUPEROXIDE; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; HOMOCYSTINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ION CURRENT; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; HOMOCYSTINE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 80053301456     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6870     Document Type: Article

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