Expression of connective tissue growth factor and its potential role in choroidal neovascularization

Retina

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 911-918

  Watanabe, Daisuke ^a   Takagi, Hitoshi ^a   Suzuma, Kiyoshi ^a   Oh, Hideyasu ^a   Ohashi, Hirokazu ^a   Honda, Yoshihito ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Choroidal neovascularization; Connective tissue growth factor; Transforming growth factor; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOKERATIN; PANCYTOKERATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ANGIOID STREAK; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MYOPIA; PIGMENT CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STROMA CELL; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANES; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 26844504985     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200510000-00015     Document Type: Article

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