Excitatory amino acid involvement in retinal degeneration.

doi:10.1016/0006-8993(90)90800-q

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Excitatory amino acid involvement in retinal degeneration.

Brain research - 29 Oct 1990

Ulshafer R J, Sherry D M, Dawson R, Wallace D R

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Amino acid analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography demonstrated high levels of the excitatory amino acids, aspartate and glutamate, in the retinas of congenitally blind chicks at the time of photoreceptor degeneration. Concentrations of aspartate were about 2 times higher in blind c...

Topics

Animals
Aspartic Acid
Blindness
Chickens
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Glutamates
Glutamic Acid
Male
Mutation
Reference Values
Retina
Retinal Degeneration

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