Nuclear atrophy of retinal ganglion cells precedes the bax-dependent stage of apoptosis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1805-1815

  Janssen, Katherine T ^a,b   Mac Nair, Caitlin E ^a   Dietz, Joel A ^a   Schlamp, Cassandra L ^a   Nickells, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NERVE CRUSH; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ATROPHY; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HISTONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE CRUSH; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84875420690     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9310     Document Type: Article

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