Longitudinal in vivo imaging of retinal ganglion cells and retinal thickness changes following optic nerve injury in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Chauhan, Balwantray C ^a,b   Stevens, Kelly T ^a,b   Levesque, Julie M ^a,b   Nuschke, Andrea C ^a,b   Sharpe, Glen P ^b   O'Leary, Neil ^b   Archibald, Michele L ^a,b   Wang, Xu ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA THICKNESS; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; CELL SURVIVAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84863109512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040352     Document Type: Article

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