Growth factors in the retina and retinal pigmented epithelium

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 547-567

  Campochiaro, Peter A ^a   Hackett, Sean F ^a   Vinores, Stanley A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; REVIEW;

EID: 0029774058     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1350-9462(96)00012-2     Document Type: Review

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