Cellular and 3D optical coherence tomography assessment during the initiation and progression of retinal degeneration in the Ccl2/Cx3cr1-deficient mouse

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 636-648

  Zhou, Yongdong ^a,b   Sheets, Kristopher G ^a   Knott, Eric J ^a   Regan, Cornelius E ^a   Tuo, Jingsheng ^c   Chan, Chi Chao ^c   Gordon, William C ^a,b   Bazan, Nicolas G ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D OCT; Ccl2; Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy; Cx3cr1; M ller cell; Optical coherence tomography; Photoreceptor degeneration; Reactive gliosis; Rodent model

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1; CUTANEOUS T CELL ATTRACTING CHEMOKINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CCL2 CX3CR1 DEFICIENT MOUSE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUELLER CELL; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMOKINE CCL2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLIOSIS; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84860389425     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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