Post-ischemic environmental enrichment protects the retina from ischemic damage in adult rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 146-156

  Dorfman, Damián ^a   Fernandez, Diego C ^a   Chianelli, Mónica ^a   Miranda, Magdalena ^a   Aranda, Marcos L ^a   Rosenstein, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Enriched environment; Glutamate; Ischemia; Retina

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE PROTECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POST ISCHEMIC ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT HOUSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINA ISCHEMIA; RETINAL THICKNESS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; ISCHEMIA; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84871481526     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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