Accumulation of murine subretinal macrophages: Effects of age, pigmentation and CX 3CR1

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1769-1776

  Chinnery, Holly R ^a,b   McLenachan, Samuel ^b   Humphries, Timothy ^b   Kezic, Jelena M ^b   Chen, Xiangting ^a   Ruitenberg, Marc J ^c   McMenamin, Paul G ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; CX 3CR1; Macrophages; Microglia; Retina; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ALBINISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; SUBRETINA SPACE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROGLIA; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

EID: 84861841498     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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