Age-related changes in venous endothelial phenotype at human retinal artery-vein crossing points

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1108-1116

  Yu, Paula K ^a,b   Tan, Priscilla E Z ^a,b   Morgan, William H ^a   Cringle, Stephen J ^a,b   McAllister, Ian L ^a   Yu, Dao Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; F ACTIN; NUCLEIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS FIBER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; VENOUS ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857853987     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8865     Document Type: Article

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