New components of 'basal laminar deposits' in age-related macular degeneration

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 170-181

  Reale, Enrico ^a   Groos, Stephanie ^a   Eckardt, Ute ^b   Eckardt, Claus ^b   Luciano, Liliana ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Eye Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choroidal neovascularization; Long spacing collagen aggregates; Retinal pigment epithelium; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MONOMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 68649113530     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000187632     Document Type: Article

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