Retinal pigment epithelial cells from Royal College of Surgeons dystrophic rats can take up melanin granules

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-71

  Braun, Michaela ^a   Kage, Andreas ^a   Heimann, Klaus ^a   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; TRYPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA DYSTROPHY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; IRIS; MELANINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0033016125     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050196     Document Type: Article

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