Evolution of neovascularization in mice with overexpression of vascular endothelial growth factor in photoreceptors

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 180-188

  Tobe, Takao ^a   Okamoto, Naoyuki ^a   Vinores, Melissa A ^a   Derevjanik, Nancy L ^a   Vinores, Stanley A ^a   Zack, Donald J ^a   Campochiaro, Peter A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; DEXTRAN; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTORECEPTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINAL VESSELS; RHODOPSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031975156     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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