Variable oxygen and retinal VEGF levels: Correlation with incidence and severity of pathology in a rat model of oxygen-induced retinopathy

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 623-630

  Werdich, Xiang Q ^a   McCollum, Gary W ^a   Rajaratnam, Veera S ^a   Penn, John S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; hypoxia; pigment epithelium derived factor; retina; retinopathy of prematurity; vascular endothelial growth factor; vasoproliferation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM DERIVED FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINOPATHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; SERPINS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 6944245989     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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