Xenopus laevis tadpoles can regenerate neural retina lost after physical excision but cannot regenerate photoreceptors lost through targeted ablation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1859-1867

  Lee, Damian C ^a   Hamm, Lisa M ^a,b   Moritz, Orson L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SUPPLEMENTATION; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSURGERY; REGENERATION; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84875423711     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10953     Document Type: Article

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