Retinal functional alterations in mice lacking intermediate filament proteins glial fibrillary acidic protein and vimentin

FASEB Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4815-4828

  Wunderlich, Kirsten A ^a,c   Tanimoto, Naoyuki ^c   Grosche, Antje ^d   Zrenner, Eberhart ^c   Pekny, Milos ^e,f,g   Reichenbach, Andreas ^h   Seeliger, Mathias W ^c   Pannicke, Thomas ^h   Perez, Maria Thereza ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroretinogram; GFAP; Kir channels; M ller glia; Retinal ischemia

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; CALBINDIN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR4.1; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL BODY; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA ISCHEMIA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL ROD OUTER SEGMENT; RETINAL THICKNESS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; ISCHEMIA; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; ISCHEMIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84973437277     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.15-272963     Document Type: Article

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