Susceptibility to glaucoma damage related to age and connective tissue mutations in mice

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-60

  Steinhart, Matthew R ^a   Cone Kimball, Elizabeth ^a   Nguyen, Cathy ^a   Nguyen, Thao D ^a   Pease, Mary E ^a   Chakravarti, Shukti ^a   Oglesby, Ericka N ^a   Quigley, Harry A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Elastin; Experimental model; Fibromodulin; Glaucoma; Mouse; Retinal ganglion cell; Sclera

Indexed keywords

CD1 ANTIGEN; ELASTIN; FIBROMODULIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENUCLEATION; EXPERIMENTAL GLAUCOMA; GENE MUTATION; GLAUCOMA; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TONOMETER;

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FIBROMODULIN; GLAUCOMA; MOUSE; RETINAL GANGLION CELL; SCLERA;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL COUNT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; ELASTIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; OPTIC NERVE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCLERA;

EID: 84891359116     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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