Expression of α-crystallin in retinoblastoma

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-192

  Kase, Satoru ^a   Parikh, Jignesh G ^a   Rao, Narsinga ^a,b  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINOBLASTOMA; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR CELL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENUCLEATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RETINA TUMOR; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EYE ENUCLEATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 60549102517     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.580     Document Type: Article

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