A human apoB100 transgenic mouse expresses human apoB100 in the RPE and develops features of early AMD

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1115-1123

  Fujihara, Masashi ^a   Bartels, Emil ^b   Nielsen, Lars B ^b,c   Handa, James T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; apolipoprotein B; basal laminar deposit; basal linear deposit; lipoproteins; retinal pigmented epithelium

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B100; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEIN B-100; BODY WEIGHT; CHOROID; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIVER; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 67349093946     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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