Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural evidence of glial cells and hyalocytes in internal limiting membrane specimens of idiopathic macular holes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 7822-7834

  Schumann, Ricarda G ^a   Eibl, Kirsten H ^a   Zhao, Fei ^a   Scheerbaum, Martin ^a   Scheler, Renate ^a   Schaumberger, Markus M ^a   Wehnes, Helga ^b   Walch, Axel K ^b   Haritoglou, Christos ^a   Kampik, Anselm ^a   Gandorfer, Arnd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD64 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CELLULAR RETINALDEHYDE BINDING PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; THY 1 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA HOLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VITREORETINOPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 80053650761     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7514     Document Type: Article

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