Intense physiological light upregulates vascular endothelial growth factor and enhances choroidal neovascularization via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator-1α in mice

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1366-1371

  Ueta, Takashi ^a   Inoue, Tatsuya ^a   Yuda, Kentaro ^a   Furukawa, Takahisa ^b   Yanagi, Yasuo ^a   Tamaki, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Choroidal neovascularization; Ppargc1a protein, mouse; Retinal photoreceptor cell outer segment

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84861528340     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.112.248021     Document Type: Article

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