Subfoveal fibrovascular membranes in age-related macular degeneration express vascular endothelial growth factor

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1929-1934

  Kvanta, Anders ^a,b   Algvere, Peep V ^a   Berglin, Lennart ^a   Seregard, Stefan ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; fibroblasts; fibrovascular membranes; neovascularization; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOROID; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOKINES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0029831672     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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