Transcorneal electrical stimulation promotes survival of photoreceptors and improves retinal function in rhodopsin P347L transgenic rabbits

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4254-4261

  Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Kanda, Hiroyuki ^a   Kondo, Mineo ^b   Terasaki, Hiroko ^c   Nishida, Kohji ^a   Fujikado, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEANUT AGGLUTININ; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RETINA; TRANSCORNEAL NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; RETINA DISEASE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RABBITS; RETINAL DISEASES; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 84866294230     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9067     Document Type: Article

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