Ultrastructural changes in a murine model of graded bruch membrane lipoidal degeneration and corresponding VEGF164 detection

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 390-398

  Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Rudolf, Martin ^b,c   Funk, Marion ^a   Hofmann Rummelt, Carmen ^d   Franz Haas, Nikola Simone ^d   Aherrahrou, Zouhair ^e   Schlötzer Schrehardt, Ursula ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VISUAL PIGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A, MOUSE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIPID MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MURINAE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA DETACHMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIPID METABOLISM; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RECEPTORS, LDL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 39549108352     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/IOVS.07-0227     Document Type: Article

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