Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | caspase-2 mediates death in a proportion of retinal ganglion cells but not photoreceptors at the site of blunt ocular trauma. Thus, intravitreally delivered siCASP2 is a possible therapeutic for the effective treatment of retinal ganglion cell death to prevent traumatic optic neuropathy | Rattus norvegicus |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Rattus norvegicus | P55215 | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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retina | - |
Rattus norvegicus | - |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | the enzyme mediates site-specific retinal ganglion cell death after blunt ocular injury | Rattus norvegicus |