Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer to photocoagulation-induced choroidal neovascular membranes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2474-2478

  Murata, Toshinori ^a   Hangai, Masanori ^a   Ishibashi, Tatsuro ^b   Spee, Christine ^a   Gordon, Erlinda M ^c   Anderson, W French ^c   Hinton, David R ^c   Ryan, Stephen J ^a  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROVIRUS; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RETROVIRIDAE;

EID: 0031789544     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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