Function and regulation of taurine transport at the inner blood-retinal barrier

Microvascular Research

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 100-106

  Tomi, Masatoshi ^a   Terayama, Tomoyuki ^a   Isobe, Tomoyuki ^a   Egami, Fuminobu ^b   Morito, Akihisa ^b   Kurachi, Michio ^b   Ohtsuki, Sumio ^c,d   Kang, Young Sook ^c,e   Terasaki, Tetsuya ^c,d   Hosoya, Ken ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; Inner blood retinal barrier; Retina; Taurine; Transporter

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; HYPOTAURINE; MESSENGER RNA; TAURINE; TAURINE DERIVATIVE; TAURINE TRANSPORTER;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMOBILIZED CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA CAPILLARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; KINETICS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TAURINE;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846940943     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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