Environmental Enrichment Extends Photoreceptor Survival and Visual Function in a Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Barone, Ilaria ^a   Novelli, Elena ^b   Piano, Ilaria ^b   Gargini, Claudia ^c   Strettoi, Enrica ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EYE PROTECTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PHOTORECEPTOR SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84870318786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050726     Document Type: Article

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