Role of the corneal epithelial basement membrane in ocular defense against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3264-3271

  Alarcon, Irania ^a   Kwan, Lesley ^b   Yu, Chong ^b   Evans, David J ^b,c   Fleiszig, Suzanne M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOURO UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL GROWTH; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL LINE; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RABBITS;

EID: 67651229410     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00111-09     Document Type: Article

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