Low nitric oxide synthases (NOSs) in eyes with age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 155-167

  Bhutto, Imran A ^a   Baba, Takayuki ^a   Merges, Carol ^a   McLeod, D Scott ^a   Lutty, Gerard A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; choriocapillaris; neurons; nitric oxide synthases; retinal endothelial cells; retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; MELANOCYTE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; CHOROID; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; ISOENZYMES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 70749116216     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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