Retinal Ganglion Cells are Resistant to Photoreceptor Loss in Retinal Degeneration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Bin ^a,b   Peng, Edward Bo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DEPENDOVIRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS;

EID: 84879522623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068084     Document Type: Article

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