Osmoregulation of Taurine Transporter Function and Expression in Retinal Pigment Epithelial, Ganglion, and Müller Cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 694-701

  El Sherbeny, Amira ^a   Naggar, Hany ^a   Miyauchi, Seiji ^a   Ola, M Shamsul ^a   Maddox, Dennis M ^a   Martin, Pamela Moore ^a   Ganapathy, Vadivel ^a   Smith, Sylvia B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; INOSITOL; MANNITOL; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHORUS 32; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAURINE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPEROSMOLARITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MUELLER CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOREGULATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; INOSITOL; MANNITOL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAURINE;

EID: 0942287240     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0503     Document Type: Article

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