Death by color: Differential cone loss in the aging mouse retina

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2584-2591

  Cunea, Alexander ^a   Powner, Michael B ^a   Jeffery, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cone; Photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA CONE; RETINAL THICKNESS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA ROD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OPSINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922177258     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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