An immunocytochemical study of isolated human retinal Müller cells in culture

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 411-414

  Arroyo, Jorge G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLYCOGEN; KERATIN; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CADAVER; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLYCOGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROGLIA; RETINA; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0030810413     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00947059     Document Type: Article

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