Functional and structural evaluation of lamotrigine treatment in rat models of acute and chronic ocular hypertension

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-56

  Sandalon, Shai ^a   Könnecke, Birte ^b   Levkovitch Verbin, Hani ^c   Simons, Mikael ^b   Hein, Katharina ^b   Sättler, Muriel B ^b   Bähr, Mathias ^b   Ofri, Ron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electroretinography; Glaucoma; Lamotrigine; Neuroprotection; Optic nerve; Retinal ganglion cell; Sodium channels

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; LAMOTRIGINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SILVER IMPREGNATION;

ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ERG; FERG; FULL FIELD ERG; GLAUCOMA; IHC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IOP; LAMOTRIGINE; LTG; NA(V); NEUROPROTECTION; ON; OPTIC NERVE; PATTERN ERG; PERG; RETINAL GANGLION CELL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RGC; SODIUM CHANNELS; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; AXONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRIAZINES; UP-REGULATION; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84880995187     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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