Displaced retinal ganglion cells in albino and pigmented rats

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Nadal Nicolás, Francisco M ^a,b,c   Salinas Navarro, Manuel ^a,b   Jiménez López, Manuel ^a,b   Sobrado Calvo, Paloma ^a,b   Villegas Pérez, María P ^a,b   Vidal Sanz, Manuel ^a,b   Agudo Barriuso, Marta ^a,b,c  

^a Centro de Investigación Biosanitaria en Red de Salud Mental Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria Arrixaca   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Brn3a; Fluorogold; Glaucoma; Intrinsically photosensitive RGCs; Ipsilateral; Spatial distribution; Tracing

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNODETECTION; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84907768463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00099     Document Type: Article

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