Resident and infiltrating immune cells in the uveal tract in the early and late stages of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2195-2210

  Butler, T L ^a   McMenamin, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

autoimmune; choroid; dendritic cell; iris; macrophages; T cell; uveitis

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CHOROID; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRIS; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; UVEA; UVEORETINITIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL COUNT; CHOROID; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IRIS; MACROPHAGES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RETINITIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UVEA; UVEITIS, POSTERIOR;

EID: 0029845768     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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