Cellular-level characterization of lymph vessels in live, unlabeled corneas by in vivo confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 830-835

  Peebo, Beatrice Bourghardt ^a   Fagerholm, Per ^a   Traneus Röckert, Catharina ^a   Lagali, Neil ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD31 ANTIGEN; LYMPHATIC ENDOTHELIAL SPECIFIC MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LYVE 1 PROTEIN, RAT; LYVE-1 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; EX VIVO STUDY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORNEAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 77449137660     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4407     Document Type: Article

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