Regulated expression of caspase-12 gene in human retinal pigment epithelial cells suggests its immunomodulating role

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5593-5601

  Bian, Zong Mei ^a   Elner, Susan G ^a   Elner, Victor M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 12; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN SIGNALING PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; THAPSIGARGIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUNICAMYCIN; CASP12 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY; LUNG; MONOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UPREGULATION; APOPTOSIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 12; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYCLOSPORINE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MONOCYTES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; THAPSIGARGIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUNICAMYCIN;

EID: 58149232766     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2116     Document Type: Article

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