A simple flow cytometric technique to quantify rod outer segment phagocytosis in cultured retinal pigment epithelial cells

Current Eye Research

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 998-1003

  Kennedy, Christopher J ^a   Rakoczy, Piroska E ^a   Constable, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bovine (cattle); D407 retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell line; Flow cytometry; Phagocytosis; Photoreceptors

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOMATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; KINETICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION HAZARD; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 0029744273     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713689609017646     Document Type: Article

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