Quantifying FITC-labeled latex beads opsonized with photoreceptor outer segment fragments: An easy and inexpensive method of investigating phagocytosis in retinal pigment epithelium cells

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 88-91

  Klettner, Alexa ^a   Möhle, Friederike ^a   Lucius, Ralph ^a   Roider, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phagocytosis; Photoreceptor outer segment; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; LATEX; LATEX BEAD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SWINE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; LATEX; MICROSPHERES; OPSONIN PROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SWINE;

EID: 79151469037     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323271     Document Type: Article

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