A model for light toxicity of cultured human retinal pigment epithelium

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-117

  Olsen, Timothy W ^a   Sternberg Jr , Paul ^a   Reed, Robyn L ^a   Jones, Dean P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXICITY; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031039959     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00941739     Document Type: Article

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