Environmental damage to the retina and preconditioning: Contrasting effects of light and hyperoxic stress

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2010

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Zhu, Yuan
Valter (Valter-Kocsi), Krisztina
Stone, Jonathan

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Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology

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PURPOSE. Environmental stress (bright light, hypoxia) can "condition" retinal photoreceptors, increasing their resistance to subsequent stress. The present study tests whether another photoreceptor-lethal stress, hyperoxia, can induce similar resistance.

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Keywords: acrolein; fibroblast growth factor; fibroblast growth factor 13; fibroblast growth factor 2; glial fibrillary astrocytic protein, mouse; heat shock protein 70; heat shock protein 70.1; heat-shock protein 70.1; lens epithelium derived growth factor; lens e

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Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

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Journal article

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