Surface elastic properties of human retinal pigment epithelium melanosomes

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 671-678

  Guo, Senli ^a   Hong, Lian ^a   Akhremitchev, Boris B ^a   Simon, John D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; MELANOSOME; METHODOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 42549167405     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2008.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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