Evidence for baseline retinal pigment epithelium pathology in the Trp1-Cre mouse

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1917-1927

  Thanos, Aristomenis ^a   Morizane, Yuki ^a   Murakami, Yusuke ^a   Giani, Andrea ^a   Mantopoulos, Dimosthenis ^a   Kayama, Maki ^a   Roh, Mi In ^a   Michaud, Norman ^a   Pawlyk, Basil ^a   Sandberg, Michael ^a   Young, Lucy H ^a   Miller, Joan W ^a   Vavvas, Demetrios G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; MELANIN; PROTEIN ZO1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTEGRASES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84860239954     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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