Melanin granules of retinal pigment epithelium are connected with the lysosomal degradation pathway

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 237-245

  Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a,b   Peters, Swaantje ^a   Thumann, Gabriele ^a   Kociok, Norbert ^a   Heimann, Klaus ^a  

^a Department of Vitreoretinal Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloroquine; Electron microscopy; Lipofuscin; Lysosome

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; GOLD; LATEX; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANIN; PROTON PUMP;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CATTLE; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LYSOSOME; MELANOSOME; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT;

EID: 0033083518     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0596     Document Type: Article

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