Changes in mRNA expression of class 3 semaphorins and their receptors in the adult rat retino-collicular system after unilateral optic nerve injury

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 8367-8377

  Sharma, Anil ^a   Pollett, Margaret A ^a   Plant, Giles W ^a,b   Harvey, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PLEXIN; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3A; SEMAPHORIN 3F;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RNA PROBE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROPILIN-1; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMAPHORINS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84873326475     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10799     Document Type: Article

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