Enhanced survival of retinal ganglion cells is mediated by Müller glial cell-derived PEDF

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 206-214

  Unterlauft, Jan Darius ^a   Claudepierre, Thomas ^b   Schmidt, Manuela ^a   Müller, Katja ^a   Yafai, Yousef ^a   Wiedemann, Peter ^a   Reichenbach, Andreas ^a   Eichler, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; M ller cells; Neurodegeneration; PEDF; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PATATIN LIKE PHOSPHOLIPASE DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 2; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM DERIVED FACTOR; PROTEIN; SN 50; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CASPASE 3; DNA; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM DERIVED FACTOR RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUELLER CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SURVIVAL FACTOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LOSS; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HYPOXIA; MÜLLER CELLS; NEURODEGENERATION; PEDF; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NF-KAPPA B; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERPINS;

EID: 84907354698     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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