Selective killing of RPE with a vascular endothelial growth factor chimeric toxin

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2389-2393

  Hoffmann, Stephan ^c   Masood, Rizwan ^a   Zhang, Ya ^a   He, Shikun ^c   Ryan, Stephen J ^c   Gill, Parkash ^a   Hinton, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOROID; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCLERA;

CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOROID; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTOXINS; LYMPHOKINES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCLERA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0033937498     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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