Energy substrate requirements of rat retinal pigmented epithelial cells in culture: Relative importance of glucose, amino acids, and monocarboxylates

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1272-1280

  Wood, John P M ^a   Chidlow, Glyn ^a   Graham, Mark ^a,b   Osborne, Neville N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; LACTIC ACID; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; PYRUVIC ACID; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; GLYCOLYSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REDUCTION; SERUM; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLUCOSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LACTIC ACID; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PYRUVIC ACID; RATS;

EID: 2142812347     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0693     Document Type: Article

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