Epithelial phenotype and the RPE: Is the answer blowing in the Wnt?

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 579-595

  Burke, Janice M ^a  

^a EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN;

AGE; AGING; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRESS; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MORPHOGENESIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW;

AGING; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 55649104965     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2008.08.002     Document Type: Review

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