Assessment of retinal ganglion cell damage in glaucomatous optic neuropathy: Axon transport, injury and soma loss

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 111-124

  Nuschke, Andrea C ^a   Farrell, Spring R ^a,b   Levesque, Julie M ^a   Chauhan, Balwantray C ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Capital District Health Authority   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated quantification; Axonal degeneration; Fluorescence microscopy; Glaucoma; Glaucomatous optic neuropathy; Immunohistochemistry; Quantification methods; Retrograde tracer

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALPAIN; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RHODAMINE B ISOTHIOCYANATE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AXONAL INJURY; GLAUCOMATOUS OPTIC NEUROPATHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 84945450772     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2015.06.006     Document Type: Review

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