Localization of lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (β-trace) in iris, ciliary body, and eye fluids

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 198-203

  Gerashchenko, Dmitry Y ^a   Beuckmann, Carsten T ^a   Marcheselli, Victor L ^b   Gordon, William C ^b   Kanaoka, Yoshihide ^a   Eguchi, Naomi ^c   Urade, Yoshihiro ^a   Hayaishi, Osamu ^a   Bazan, Nicolas G ^b  

^a OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOCALIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN D SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IRIS; LENS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CILIARY BODY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; IRIS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0031975103     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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