Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry of ocular and extraocular pseudoexfoliative material

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-56

  Amari, Fujio ^a   Umihira, Junichi ^a   Nohara, Masahiko ^a   Nagata, Seiji ^a   Usuda, Nobuteru ^a   Segawa, Katsuzo ^a   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry; Extraocular pseudoexfoliative material; Proteins of extraocular matrices; Pseudoexfoliation syndrome; Video image analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYELID; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030792633     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1997.0306     Document Type: Article

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