Localization of myocilin/trabecular meshwork-inducible glucocorticoid response protein in the human eye

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 729-740

  Karali, Anastasia ^a   Russell, Paul ^b   Stefani, Fritz H ^c   Tamm, Ernst R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MYOCILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY EPITHELIUM; CILIARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS EPITHELIUM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA; SPHINCTER PUPILLAE MUSCLE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RABBITS; RETINA; SCLERA; UVEA; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0034014021     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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