Ultimate fate of rod outer segments in the retinal pigment epithelium

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 311-315

  Thumann, Gabriele ^a,b   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a   Kociok, Norbert ^a   Heimann, Klaus ^a   Schraemeyer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Lipofuscin; Lysosome; Melanin; ROS; RPE

Indexed keywords

GOLD; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RABBIT; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; GOLD; LIPOFUSCIN; LYSOSOMES; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS;

EID: 0033210347     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00764.x     Document Type: Article

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