The mRNA expression of cytokines and their receptors in cultured iris pigment epithelial cells: A comparison with retinal pigment epithelial cells

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 237-250

  Kociok, Norbert ^a   Heppekausen, Heike ^a   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a   Esser, Peter ^a   Thumann, Gabriele ^a   Grisanti, Salvatore ^a   Heimann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokine receptors; Cytokines; Growth factors; Iris pigment epithelial cells; Retinal pigment epithelial cells; RT PCR; Subretinal transplantation

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032144865     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0517     Document Type: Article

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