Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and proliferation of retinal pigment epithelial cells initiated upon loss of cell-cell contact

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2755-2763

  Tamiya, Shigeo ^a   Liu, LanHsin ^a   Kaplan, Henry J ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; P CADHERIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CADHERIN; EYE PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS CAPSULE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SWINE; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; ROD CELL OUTER SEGMENT; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SWINE; VIMENTIN;

EID: 77952495532     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4725     Document Type: Article

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