A modified histoimmunochemistry-assisted method for in situ RPE evaluation

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 4 E, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1571-1581

  Zhang, Jingfa ^a   Xu, Guoxu ^b   Zhang, Limei ^a   Gu, Limin ^a   Xu, Hua ^a   Lu, Lixia ^a   Wang, Juan ^a   Gao, Furong ^a   Xu, Jing Ying ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Li, Weiye ^a,c   Xu, Guo Tong ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CCE; Choriocapillaris; RBCC; Retinal pigment epithelium; RPE; RPE Bruch's membrane choriocapillaris complex

Indexed keywords

SODIUM IODATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; RETINA DISEASE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84860849878     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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