...Masanori Hangai; Nagahisa Yoshimura; Yoshihito Honda Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) gene expression in rat retina following transient ischemia was studied by semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Gene expression for other cytokines was also studied by RT-PCR...

...Enping Chen The refractive indices in various rat retinal layers, based on the total dry mass concentration, ranged from 1.369 to 1.385. The ratios of the refractive indices of neighboring retinal layers were near unity. This finding suggests that light passes through the rat retina without much...

..., while allopurinol, an inhibitor of the conversion of xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase, does not attenuate reperfusion-induced ion shifts. 23 09 1991 28 04 1992 10 12 2009 Ischemia Reperfusion Free radicals Rat retina Na + K + Ca 2+ Mg 2+ Superoxide dismutase...

...Yan-hua Wang; Yi Wang; Dong-wu Wang; Nan Wu; Dong-ning Liu; Zheng-qin Yin Background: RhoA is a small guanosine triphosphatase which participates in signaling pathways of axonal repellents or inhibitors. However, the distribution and expression of RhoA in the rat retina after optic nerve injury has...

...Yumi Kaneko; Masaki Ichikawa; Yasuo Kurimoto; Kouichi Ohta; Nagahisa Yoshimura Purpose: To investigate whether conditioned medium from embryonic rat retinas can induce differentiation of adult rat hippocampus-derived neural stem cells (AHSCs) into neurons and glia in vitro. Methods: AHSCs were...

... isolated the cDNA of the core protein of rat MLGAPC, prepared an anti-rat MLGAPC core protein antibody and then examined the expression of the MLGAPC core protein in postnatal developing rat retinas by means of Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. Results: On postnatal early days when cone...

...Jean Marc Ménérath; Marie-Thérèse Droy-Lefaix; Michel Doly The authors described the use of scanning electron microscopy after cryofracture to analyze rat retinas after experimental ischemia-reperfusion sequence. In Sprague-Dawley albino rats, intraocular hypertony by cannulation of anterior...