Effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor on mouse axotomized retinal ganglion cells and phagocytic microglia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 974-985

  Galindo Romero, Caridad ^a   Valiente Soriano, F Javier ^a   Jimenez Lopez, M ^a   García Ayuso, Diego ^a   Villegas Pérez, Maria P ^a   Vidal Sanz, Manuel ^a   Agudo Barriuso, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUPRENORPHINE; IBA1 PROTEIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; IMAGING; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 84873459431     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-11207     Document Type: Article

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