Protective effect of bax ablation against cell loss in the retinal ganglion layer induced by optic nerve crush in transgenic mice

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 331-338

  Goldenberg Cohen, Nitza ^a,b   Dratviman Storobinsky, Olga ^b   Dadon Bar El, Shimrit ^b   Cheporko, Yelena ^b   Hochhauser, Edith ^b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CRUSH TRAUMA; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE CRUSH; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 81755161510     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: 15365166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e318227e4fb     Document Type: Article

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