Optomotor and immunohistochemical changes in the juvenile S334ter rat

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-73

  McGill, Trevor J ^a   Prusky, Glen T ^b   Luna, Gabriel ^c   LaVail, Matthew M ^d   Fisher, Steven K ^c   Lewis, Geoffrey P ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optokinetic tracking; Retinal degeneration; Retinal remodeling; Rhodopsin; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUELLER CELL; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC TRACKING; OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA NERVE CELL; THICKNESS; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; NEUROGLIA; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RHODOPSIN; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867635544     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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