Lens GABA receptors are a target of GABA-related agonists that mitigate experimental myopia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 589-592

  Frederikse, Peter H ^a   Kasinathan, Chinnaswamy ^a  

^a RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA4; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR DELTA; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; BACLOFEN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE IIALPHA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MELATONIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 125B; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN KINASE P60; PROTEIN P35; PROTEIN PTBP1; PROTEIN PTBP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; EXPERIMENTAL DISEASE; EXPERIMENTAL MYOPIA; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; LENS EPITHELIUM CELL; MYOPIA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE GROWTH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LENS; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; GABA AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOPIA; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE;

EID: 84933671053     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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