Correlation between SD-OCT, immunocytochemistry and functional findings in an animal model of retinal degeneration

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Cuenca, Nicolás ^a   Fernández Sánchez, Laura ^a   Sauvé, Yves ^b   Segura, Francisco J ^c,d   Martínez Navarrete, Gema ^e   Tamarit, José Manuel ^f   Fuentes Broto, Lorena ^c,g   Sanchez Cano, Ana ^c,g   Pinilla, Isabel ^c,d,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA ARAGÓN IIS ARAGÓN   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^f Bloss Group Company Spain and Heidelberg Engineering Gmbh   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Electroretinogram; Immunohistochemistry; Optical coherence tomography; P23H rat; Retinal degeneration; Retinitis pigmentosa; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; B WAVE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; RAT; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINAL THICKNESS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SYNAPSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84919916151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00151     Document Type: Article

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