Retinal microglial activation following topical application of intracellular toll-like receptor ligands

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7377-7386

  Chinnery, Holly R ^a   Naranjo Golborne, Cecilia ^b   Leong, Cheng M ^b   Chen, Weisan ^c   Forrester, John V ^d,e   McMenamin, Paul G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Macrophages; Microglia; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE POLYCYTIDYLIC POLYINOSINIC ACID POLYLYSINE; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RESIQUIMOD; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; LIGAND; TLR9 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOROID; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA CELL; RETINA EDEMA; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SUBRETINAL FLUID; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84947465981     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-17587     Document Type: Article

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