A2E, a lipofuscin fluorophore, in human retinal pigmented epithelial cells in culture

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2988-2995

  Sparrow, Janet R ^a   Parish, Craig A ^a   Hashimoto, Masaru ^a   Nakanishi, Koji ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPOFUSCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPOFUSCIN; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANELLES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINOIDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0032710514     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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