Isolation, culture, and characterization of human fetal trabecular meshwork cells

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-50

  Lin, Shan ^a   Lee, On Tat ^a   Minasi, Petros ^a   Wong, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult trabecular meshwork cells; Fetal trabecular meshwork cells; Glaucoma; Monolayer formation; Population doubling

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AQUAPORIN 1; DEXAMETHASONE; FIBRONECTIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; LAMININ; MYOCILIN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GLAUCOMA; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANTIGENS, CD44; AQUAPORIN 1; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DEXAMETHASONE; EYE PROTEINS; FETUS; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LAMININ; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; VIMENTIN;

EID: 33847043085     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680601107058     Document Type: Article

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