Role of CD44+ stem cells in mural cell formation in the human choroid: Evidence of vascular instability due to limited pericyte ensheathment

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 399-410

  Chan Ling, Tailoi ^a   Koina, Mark E ^b   McColm, Janet R ^a   Dahlstrom, Jane E ^b,c   Bean, Elaine ^b   Adamson, Sam ^a   Yun, Steven ^a   Baxter, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CALDESMON; CALPONIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD39 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; PROTEIN NG2; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA SMA PROTEIN, HUMAN; ALPHA-SMA PROTEIN, HUMAN; ANTIGEN; APYRASE; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; CD44 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CHONDROITIN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCAN 4; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA CELL; STEM CELL; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; CELL LINEAGE; CHOROID; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ACTINS; ADULT; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD44; APYRASE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHOROID; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICYTES; PROTEOGLYCANS; RETINAL VESSELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952274952     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5403     Document Type: Article

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