Cellular response in subretinal neovascularization induced by bFGF- impregnated microspheres

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 524-528

  Kimura, Hideya ^a,b   Spee, Christine ^a   Sakamoto, Taiji ^a   Hinton, David R ^a   Ogura, Yuichiro ^b   Tabata, Yasuhiko ^b   Ikada, Yoshito ^b   Ryan, Stephen J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG CARRIERS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATINS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROSPHERES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0032920246     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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