The normal human choroid is endowed with a significant number of lymphatic vessel endothelial hyaluronate receptor 1 (LYVE-1) - Positive macrophages

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5222-5229

  Schroedl, Falk ^a   Brehmer, Axel ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a   Kruse, Friedrich E ^a   May, C Albrecht ^b   Cursiefen, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CELL RECEPTOR; LYMPHATIC VESSEL ENDOTHELIAL HYALURONATE RECEPTOR 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MELAN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; PODOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LYVE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PDPN PROTEIN, HUMAN; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHOROID; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UVEA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LYMPH VESSEL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOROID; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 58149269735     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-1721     Document Type: Article

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