Effects of VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2, and IGF-IR hammerhead ribozymes on glucose-mediated tight junction expression in cultured human retinal endothelial cells

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 32-42

  Spoerri, Polyxenie E ^a   Afzal, Aqeela ^a   Calzi, Sergio Li ^a   Shaw, Lynn C ^a   Cai, Jun ^b   Pan, Hao ^a   Boulton, Michael ^b   Grant, Maria B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; LIPOFECTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; OCCLUDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA CELL; TIGHT JUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETINAL VESSELS; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 30444461395     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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