Anterograde Degeneration along the Visual Pathway after Optic Nerve Injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  You, Yuyi ^a   Gupta, Vivek K ^a   Graham, Stuart L ^a,b   Klistorner, Alexander ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; ENZYME ANTIBODY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTEROGRADE DEGENERATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NICK END LABELING; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; VISION;

EID: 84871546063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052061     Document Type: Article

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