The expression of retinal cell markers in human retinal pigment epithelial cells and their augmentation by the synthetic retinoid fenretinide

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 1701-1715

  Carr, Amanda Jayne ^a   Vugler, Anthony A ^a   Yu, Lu ^a   Semo, Maayan ^a   Coffey, Pete ^a   Moss, Stephen E ^a   Greenwood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FENRETINIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAIRED BOX 6 GENE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FENRETINIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINOIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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