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By the method of indirect immunohistochemistry, distribution of transferrin and of transferrin receptor of the type 1 (TFR1) was studied in the formed rat eye retina at the period of early postnatal ontogenesis (from birth to opening of eyelids). It has been established that the character of distribution of these proteins and intensity of specific staining change dependent on the retina formation stage. Retina of the newborn rat is characterized by diffuse transferrin distribution in nuclear retina layer (in the neuroblast layer-NBL) and in the ganglionic cell layer (GCL) as well as in the eye pigment epithelium (PE); relative immunoreactivity to transferrin is not high. At the 5th postnatal day, immunoreactivity to transferrin is maximal and is revealed both in nuclear and in plexiform layers of retina and in the eye PE, the greatest signal being characteristic of NBL. At the 10th postnatal day the transferrin signal intensity in retina decreases, specific staining is revealed in GCL, PE, and in the area of formed outer segments of photoreceptors. At the 15th postnatal day, transferrin is revealed in GCL, in outer and inner photoreceptor segments and in the eye PE. TFR1 is present in all retina layers at all stages of the retina formation; the relative immunoreactivity to TFR1 sharply rises beginning from the 10th postnatal day; correlation between distribution of transferrin and TFR1 is detected in the entire retina of newborn rats as well as in the external retina area at subsequent stages of its development. A possible role of transferrin at various stages of formation of retina is discussed.
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Original Russian Text © M. G. Yefimova, J.-C. Jeanny, Y. Courtois, 2008, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 563–569.
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Yefimova, M.G., Jeanny, J.C. & Courtois, Y. Distribution of transferrin and transferrin receptor of the eype 1 in the process of formation of the rat eye retina in early postnatal ontogenesis. J Evol Biochem Phys 44, 666–673 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093008060033
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