Aquaporin 4 knockdown exacerbates streptozotocin-induced diabetic retinopathy through aggravating inflammatory response

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-43

  Cui, Bei ^a   Sun, Jin Hua ^b   Xiang, Fen Fen ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Li, Wen Jie ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XiPing Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 4; Diabetic retinopathy; Inflammation; M ller cell; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; STREPTOZOCIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUOROGRAPHY; GENE SILENCING; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOSTASIS; MALE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THICKNESS; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKINS; LEUKOSTASIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL VESSELS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84860243287     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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