Age-related changes in human RPE cell density and apoptosis proportion in situ

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3312-3318

  Del Priore, Lucian V ^a   Kuo, Ya Hui ^a   Tezel, Tongalp H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL MIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

EID: 0036785896     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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