Fluorescence properties of autofluorescent granules generated by cultured human RPE cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1487-1492

  Wassell, Julie ^a   Ellis, Steven ^a   Burke, Janice ^b   Boulton, Mike ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFORM; LEUPEPTIN; LIPOFUSCIN; LIPOSOME; METHANOL; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CELL GRANULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; LIPOFUSCIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0031777041     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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