Repetitive mild traumatic brain injury causes optic nerve and retinal damage in a mouse model

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 345-361

  Tzekov, Radouil ^a,b,c   Quezada, Alexandra ^a   Gautier, Megan ^a   Biggins, Davida ^a   Frances, Candice ^a   Mouzon, Benoit ^a,c   Jamison, Jeff ^c   Mullan, Michael ^a,c   Crawford, Fiona ^a,c,d  

^a ROSKAMP INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Ophthy DS   (United States)

^d James A Haley Veterans' Administrations Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroretinography; Ganglion cells; Mild traumatic brain injury; Optic nerve; Retina; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; RETINA INJURY; RETINAL THICKNESS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A;

EID: 84897403431     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0000000000000059     Document Type: Article

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