Localization of TIMP-3 mRNA expression to the retinal pigment epithelium

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1921-1924

  Della, Neil G ^a   Campochiaro, Peter A ^a   Zack, Donald J ^a  

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

Author keywords

extracellular matrix; neovascularization; proteinases; retinal pigment epithelium; tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 3

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-3; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029788635     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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