Matrix metalloproteinases and metalloproteinase inhibitors in choroidal neovascular membranes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2194-2200

  Steen, Björn ^a,b   Sejersen, Sylvia ^a,b   Berglin, Lennart ^a   Seregard, Stefan ^a   Kvanta, Anders ^a,b  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANES; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES;

EID: 0031719049     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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