Confocal imaging of Ca2+ signaling in cutured rat retinal pigment epithelial cells during mechanical and pharmacologic stimulation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 176-187

  Stalmans, Peter ^a,b   Himpens, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

calcium wave; confocal microscopy; imaging; mechanical stimulation; retinal pigment epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGIPRESSIN; CALCIUM ION; CARBACHOL; CATION CHANNEL; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLASS; HALOTHANE; HISTAMINE; NICKEL; POTASSIUM ION; RYANODINE; SUBSTANCE P; THAPSIGARGIN; VERAPAMIL; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; DRUG; FLUO 3; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FETAL CALF SERUM; FLUORESCENCE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; STIMULATION; STRETCHING; TOUCH; ANIMAL; CELL SEPARATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CALCIUM; CARBACHOL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HISTAMINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANCE P; XANTHENES;

EID: 0030614768     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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