Corneal endothelial cells are protected from apoptosis by gene therapy

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 549-558

  Fuchsluger, Thomas A ^a,b   Jurkunas, Ula ^a,c   Kazlauskas, Andrius ^a   Dana, Reza ^a,c  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN P35;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; MITOCHONDRION; ORGAN DONOR; TRANSGENE;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ETOPOSIDE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955449949     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2010.079     Document Type: Article

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