Systemic Simvastatin Rescues Retinal Ganglion Cells from Optic Nerve Injury Possibly through Suppression of Astroglial NF-κB Activation

• Seita Morishita,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Hidehiro Oku ,

  * E-mail: hidehirooku@aol.com

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Taeko Horie,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Masahiro Tonari,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Teruyo Kida,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Akiko Okubo,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Tetsuya Sugiyama,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Shinji Takai,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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• Hideaki Hara,

  Affiliation Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biofunctional Evaluation, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan

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• Tsunehiko Ikeda

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

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