Protective gene expression changes elicited by an inherited defect in photoreceptor structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sharma, Yagya V ^a   Cojocaru, Radu I ^c   Ritter, Linda M ^a   Khattree, Nidhi ^a   Brooks, Matthew ^b,c   Scott, Alison ^b   Swaroop, Anand ^b,c   Goldberg, Andrew F X ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CD68 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EGR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGR1 GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HOMEOSTASIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROGLIA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84857408664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031371     Document Type: Article

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