Age-related differential expression of apoptosis-related genes in conjunctival epithelial cells

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 471-476

  Giebel, Jürgen ^a   Woenckhaus, Christian ^a   Fabian, Michael ^a   Tost, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Apoptosis associated genes; Conjunctiva; Conjunctival epithelial cells; Impression cytology

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BAG 1 PROTEIN; BIM PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 5; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRY EYE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE; SCAR FORMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASES; CONJUNCTIVA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 23144461631     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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