Carbonic anhydrase activity is increased in retinal pigmented epithelium and choriocapillaris of RCS rats

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 234, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 258-263

  Eichhorn, Michael ^a   Schreckenberger, Matthias ^a   Tamm, Ernst R ^a   Lütjen Drecoll, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CILIARY BODY EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUID TRANSPORT; ION TRANSPORT; MICROSCOPY; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CHOROID; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0030005176     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00430419     Document Type: Article

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