Electrical estimulation of retinal pigment epithelial cells

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-204

  Gamboa, Olga Lucia ^a   Pu, Jin ^a   Townend, John ^b   Forrester, John V ^a   Zhao, Min ^c   McCaig, Colin ^a   Lois, Noemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

electric currents; electric fields; retina; retinal diseases; retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GELATIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SERUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77954955488     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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