Endoplasmic reticulum stress is activate
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Li-ping Yang; Le-meng Wu; Xiu-juan Guo; Ying Li; Mark O.M. Tso
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Exposure to excessive levels of light induces photoreceptor apoptosis and has previously been used as a model for the study of retinal degeneration. During the light exposure, intracellular calcium levels increase, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated, which have been shown t