Ultrastructural changes in Bruch's membrane of apolipoprotein E- deficient mice

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2035-2042

  Dithmar, Stefan ^a   Curcio, Christine A ^b   Le, Ngoc Anh ^a   Brown, Stephanie ^a   Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLESTEROL; LIPID;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE 3; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID STORAGE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; DIET; FEMALE; HYPOLIPOPROTEINEMIAS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0033948684     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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