Age-related retinal function changes in albino and pigmented rats

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 8891-8899

  Charng, Jason ^a   Nguyen, Christine T O ^a   Bui, Bang V ^a   Vingrys, Algis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SENESCENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; AGING; ALBINISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NIGHT VISION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ALBINISM; ANIMALS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NIGHT VISION; PIGMENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84855607709     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7602     Document Type: Article

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